Editorial Reviews "Comfort for the Traveler" is an enhanced Digipak CD that contains a short film animation based on an excerpt of "Angel," the sixth song on the album. The animation short was produced by Utah Carol and directed by Eun-Ha Paek of The Milky Elephant in San Francisco. The animated film is in QuickTime format. The album packaging was art directed and designed by Utah Carol and features paintings by New York City artist Lisa Krivacka and photography by Photonica, NYC. This title is an "ENHANCED" Digipak version of the album with a Quick Time video and accompanying software and installation instructions.
Comfort for the Traveler [Enhanced]
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What Jean Dubuffet is to abstract painting, Grant Birkenbeuel and JinJa Davis are to Americana. On their second release, Birkenbeuel and Davis's small songs, as vibrant as they are childlike, initially seem like the dabbling of musical dilettantes, but their shifting modal harmonies, inventive arrangements--flugelhorns, chimes, synths, and pedal steel provide subtle colorings--and pretty pop images of sunshine, space rockets, fresh air, and smiles offer a gentle, playful comfort that's sweet rather than saccharine. The closing song "Way of the Buffalo," with its vision of trees and green seas gone forever, even gestures towards dreams more political than personal. Imagine the Handsome Family on Paxil or Beck producing a children's album and you'll approximate, but not exhaust, the quiet, mirthful expressionism of Utah Carol. --Roy Kasten
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Dreamy girl/boy pop vocals that alternate with droning slide guitar, organ, and country inflections.
Album Description
"Comfort for the Traveler," Utah Carol's follow up to their 20-song debut "Wonderwheel," is haunting, mysterious and melodic. The 15 well-crafted, country-tinged pop melodies are about longing, unrealized dreams, lost love and the endless search for something that is forever just out of reach. Utah Carol has created a dreamy, hypnotic and sometimes spooky landscape with layered orchestral instruments, vintage organs and keyboards, electric guitars, acoustic bass and the unique vocal harmonies of JinJa and Grant.