| Powder Burns | ||||
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| Released | May 16, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2005–2006 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 48:48 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | One Little Indian | |||
| Producer | Greg Dulli, Mike Napolitano | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10)[2] |
| The Skinny | [3] |
| Transform Online | (positive)[4] |
Powder Burns is the fourth album by Greg Dulli's The Twilight Singers (not counting Dulli's solo album Amber Headlights). It was released on May 15, 2006 via One Little Indian Records on CD and double 12" vinyl. Powder Burns was partly recorded with extra power generators in a deserted New Orleans studio just after the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina. The album was also recorded in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Milan, and Catania.
During the album recording in 2005, Greg Dulli was aided by Manuel Agnelli, of the Italian rock band Afterhours, who co-wrote "My Time (Has Come)" and "The Conversation", the lyrics for which were inspired by the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name.[5][6] "My Time (Has Come)" was first released in 2005 as "White Widow" on Afterhours' Ballads for Little Hyenas, which in turn was co-produced by Dulli. Other collaborators on this album are Joseph Arthur, Jeff Klein and Ani DiFranco. The same recording sessions yielded the follow-up EP A Stitch in Time, released in December 2006.
It was released to extremely positive reviews, and actor/comedian Denis Leary called it "one of the best rock albums I've heard in 10 years,"[7] also putting the song "Bonnie Brae" in Rescue Me, his Emmy nominated TV series. Additionally, the song "There's Been an Accident" featured in the 2008 film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, Choke.
The Twilight Singers made their live television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on January 3, 2007, performing "Forty Dollars" on YouTube and "Sublime" on YouTube (which did not air), both featuring guest guitarist/vocalist Joseph Arthur.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review Archived 2007-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Skinny review
- ^ Transform Online review Archived 2007-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Heavenly Shades". Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ^ "Living the movie, As sound". Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ^ Endelman, Michael (May 26, 2006). "Denis Leary's five favorite songs". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 21, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-08.