Mirel Wagner: ‘When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day’ LP details

Finnish singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner will release When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day on CD / LP / DL August 11th in Europe and August 12th in North America via Sub Pop.
Mirel Wagner

Finnish singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner will release When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day  on CD / LP / DL August 11th in Europe and August 12th in North America via Sub Pop.

When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day, which includes the highlights “Oak Tree,” “1-2-3-4,” “What Love Looks Like,” and “The Dirt,” was produced and recorded by Vladislav Delay (Luomo, Uusitalo) at Shark Reef Studio in Hailuoto, Finland. The album also features additional instrumentation from Academy and Grammy award-winning composer Craig Armstrong (Ray; Moulin Rouge) on the songs “Ellipsis” and “Goodnight”.

Mirel Wagner will support When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day with a 2014 fall European and North American tour. Preceding those dates, Wagner has scheduled a series of summer shows throughout Finland, which includes a very special album release show on Friday, August 8th at Helsinki’s Flow Festival

About Mirel Wagner’s When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day:

There is a defiant air of unflinching bravery in her carefully chosen words and the skeletal chords of her acoustic guitar. Her songs are like smooth, polished black pebbles, thrown into a cold bottomless pond, drops of life that set the darkness rippling.

Squeezing the last drop of life from a worn out genre, her acoustic balladry is as far as you’ll get from clichéd coffee house folk. It has more to do with the primeval oily darkness of Swans than the folksy bonhomie of Bob Dylan.

When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day is an impressive set of songs, uniform and cohesive. Wagner ditched a set of older new songs and wrote the majority of the songs up on the peninsula of Hailuoto in northern Finland, in an old log cabin next to the family home of Wagner’s manager Aki Roukala. The isolation and relative starkness of the place (no central heating, no electricity) helped bring out the songs.

Tracklisting
1. 1 2 3 4
2. The Dirt
3. Ellipsis
4. Oak Tree
5. In My Father’s House
6. Dreamt of a Wave
7. The Devil’s Tongue
8. What Love Looks Like
9. Taller Than Tall Trees
10. Goodnight

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