Local Valley José González

Album info

Album-Release:
2021

HRA-Release:
17.09.2021

Label: City Slang

Genre: Songwriter

Subgenre: Contemporary

Artist: José González

Album including Album cover

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  • 1El Invento02:33
  • 2Visions03:55
  • 3The Void03:09
  • 4Horizons03:16
  • 5Head On04:45
  • 6Valle Local02:23
  • 7Lasso In03:47
  • 8Lilla G02:00
  • 9Swing03:33
  • 10Tjomme04:56
  • 11Line of Fire03:08
  • 12En stund på jorden02:42
  • 13Honey Honey01:48
  • Total Runtime41:55

Info for Local Valley



José González eagerly awaited fourth solo studio album "Local Valley" - his first album in more than six years.

Few people have managed to become quite so celebrated worldwide, quiet as quietly as JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ has. LOCAL VALLEY, his long awaited fourth album, serves as a relieving reminder that you don’t have to be loud to be heard.

Since his debut single ‘Crosses’ back in 2003, both he and his music have remained dependably quiet and unassuming. LOCAL VALLEY calmly exhibits his singular ability to communicate with such modesty and power.

Beginning with the sun-dappled ‘El Invento’, the first song he’s recorded in Spanish (the native tongue of his Argentinian heritage), and ending with the intimate yet rhapsodic ‘Honey Honey’. Along the way it engages in his signature melodic and metrical hypnotism, showcasing his remarkable fingerpicking skills, while there’s further evidence of his love for music from around the world (he references an inspiring jam session in Gothenburg with Niger artist Bombino) and for the first time, the introduction of a drum machine on a few songs, further widening José´s musical spectrum. The record, full of his trademark bittersweet pastoralism, includes what GONZÁLEZ considers “my most accomplished songs to date”. While continuing his tradition of reinterpreting songs by other artists, with ‘Line Of Fire' he picks one written for Junip, the band he formed with friends in 1998. That the original version has now been streamed some 60 million times suggest it, like other songs he’s covered, is now part of the songwriting canon.

LOCAL VALLEY, GONZÁLEZ cheerfully acknowledges, “is similar to my other solo albums in sound and spirit, a natural continuation of the styles I’ve been adding through the years both solo and with Junip. I set out to write songs in the same vein: short, melodic and rhythmical, a mixture of classic folk singer songwriting and songs with influences from Latin America and Africa. It’s more outward looking than my earlier works, but no less personal. On the contrary, I feel more comfortable than ever saying that this album reflects me and my thoughts right now.”

José González


José González
geboren 1978 in Göteborg ist ein schwedischer Sänger und Songwriter. Er wurde mit dem 'Winner of the European Border Breaker Award' ausgezeichnet. González ist zudem Sänger der schwedischen Band Junip.

González wurde als Sohn argentinischer Einwanderer geboren, wuchs in Göteborg auf und lebt heute in dessen Stadtviertel Haga. Mit seiner Debütsingle Crosses erreichte er im Oktober 2003 Platz 4 der schwedischen Charts, sein erstes Album stieg sogar bis auf Platz 2.

Erst mit anderthalbjähriger Verzögerung wurde das Album auch in Großbritannien und den USA veröffentlicht. Nicht zuletzt dank der Verwendung in der populären US-amerikanischen Fernsehserie O.C., California wurde González auch international bekannt. Seine Coverversion von Heartbeats, im Original von The Knife, wurde in einem Werbespot für einen Flüssigkristallbildschirm von Sony, in der vierten Staffel der US-amerikanischen Fernsehserie One Tree Hill, in der fünften Staffel der US-amerikanischen Fernsehserie Bones – Die Knochenjägerin, sowie in dem Film Vollidiot verwendet. Ende September 2007 erschien sein aktuelles Album In Our Nature. Vorab wurden einige neue Songs auf Josés MySpace-Seite veröffentlicht.

This album contains no booklet.

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