Track Listing
1. Here Come the Miracles
2. Shades of Blue
3. Sustain
4. Blackout
5. Butterscotch
6. Southern California Line
7. Morningside Heights
8. Let's Leave It Like That
9. Crawling Misanthropic Blues
10. Drought
11. Death Valley Rain
12. Strange New World
13. Sunset to the Sea
14. Good and Bad
15. Topanga Canyon Freaks
16. Watch Your Step
17. Charity
18. Smash Myself to Bits
19. There Will Come a Day
| Details | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | n/a | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Steve Wynn (vocals, guitar); Howie Gelb (guitar, harmonica); Chris Brokaw (guitar); Craig Schumacher (lap steel guitar); Chris Cacavas (organ); John Convertino (vibraphone); Dave DeCastro (bass); Linda Pitmon (drums, percussion); Nick Luca, Tiffany Burby (background vocals).
Producers: Steve Wynn, Chris Cacavas, Craig Schumacher.
Recorded at Wavelab, Tuscon, Arizona.
This lauded outing by ex-Dream Syndicate frontman Steve Wynn includes guitar-driven indie-rock tunes such as "Shades of Blue," "Morningside Heights," and "Death Valley Rain."
Steve Wynn wanted so badly to free himself from the Dream Syndicate's early sound that he didn't even wait for the band to break up to abandon it: 1986's OUT OF THE GREY and 1988's GHOST STORIES set out the less noisy and often country-inflected sound Wynn would explore for most of his solo career. But for 2001's HERE COME THE MIRACLES, Wynn decided to leap right back into the guitar squalls of the canonical Dream Syndicate sound: this expansive two-CD set is his most gloriously noisy album since THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES. Highlights include "Let's Leave it Like That," "Strange New World," and the title track.
Editorial Reviews
...His boldest artistic testament to date....a 19-song cycle of a Southern California suspended between the millennium and the apocalypse infusing his literary aspirations with rock'n'roll smarts...
No Depression (05/01/2001)
Included in Magnet's 20 Best Albums of 2001 - ...A career-defining double album [which] blossoms like a century plant in the desert sand...
Magnet (12/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...It's his best work since disbanding The Dream Syndicate....
Uncut (09/01/2001)
...Like listening to some mythical LA radio station that plays brooding psychedelia, sunshine pop and Iggy Pop-via-Bo Diddley garage punk...
Mojo (07/01/2001)
4 stars out of 5 - ...He's rarely sounded more driven....An airtight collection of jagged guitar maneuvers...
Q (07/01/2001)
In keeping with the language of Wynn's chosen landscape, he sounds as though he's finally comfortable steering the night train on a collision course with the Big Adios.
Magnet
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