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The King of Whys by Owen (CD, 2016)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelPovl, Polyvinyl Records

UPC0644110031624

eBay Product ID (ePID)20046058127

Product Key Features

Release Year2016

FormatCD

GenreRock

ArtistOwen

Release TitleThe King of Whys

Dimensions

Item Height0.28 in

Item Weight0.16 lb

Item Length5.60 in

Item Width4.97 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks10

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Empty Bottle 1.2 The Desperate Act 1.3 Settled Down 1.4 Lovers Come and Go 1.5 Tourniquet 1.6 A Burning Soul 1.7 Saltwater 1.8 An Island 1.9 Sleep Is a Myth 1.10 Lost

NotesOwen - the acclaimed solo musical guise of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mike Kinsella - has made an astonishing leap forward with The King of Whys, the first work in his two-decade-plus career to be made entirely outside of the greater Chicagoland area. Produced by S. Carey over 18 days last winter at April Base Studios in Eau Claire, WI, the album is Owen's most inspired and evocative thus far, interpolating a group dynamic into what has long been an intensely intimate sound. Songs like "The Desperate Act" and "Sleep Is A Myth" remain spare but with a distinctly outward shift in scope, their open-armed sonic range a perfect foil to Kinsella's evocative explorations of marriage, melancholia, and modern middle age. Fraught with hurt and wry humor, The King of Whys is a portrait of a restless artist grappling with doubt and ghosts of the past but searching for meaning through candor, creativity, and an ardent need for emotional release.