Good News (Withered Hand album)

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Good News
Good News album cover.jpg
Studio album by Withered Hand
Released September 14, 2009 (in the UK on B&D), March 5, 2011 (on Absolutely Kosher)
Genre Indie rock
Length 38:57
Label Absolutely Kosher Records
Producer Kramer[1]
Withered Hand chronology
Good News
(2011)		 New Gods
(2014)New Gods2014

Good News is the first full-length album by Scottish visual artist Dan Willson, d/b/a Withered Hand. Originally released on September 14, 2009 in the UK on SL Records, it was re-released on Absolutely Kosher Records in 2011 in the US.[2] The album's title is a reference to Willson's upbringing as an Evangelical Christian.[3]

Maggoty Lamb has written that "If you want to hear an album that genuinely does justice to the manna-from-heaven style succour that Domino Records' pre-Franz Ferdinand roster of US acoustic misfits gave to those wandering in the post-Britpop wilderness, Good News by Withered Hand...is the one to go for. Not so much for its explicit acknowledgement of aesthetic debt (lines about writing "the Silver Jews" on people's shoulder bags will only take you so far) as for the authentically homegrown twist the songwriting manages to put on its transatlantic influences."[4]

The album was funded by the Scottish Arts Council.[3]

Track Listing

  1. Providence
  2. Cornflake
  3. Love in the Time of Ecstasy
  4. Joy
  5. New Dawn
  6. Religious Songs
  7. No Cigarettes
  8. I Am Nothing
  9. Hard On
  10. For the Maudlin
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (85/100)[5]
Review scores
Source Rating
Blurt (magazine) (positive)[6]
The Phoenix (newspaper) 3.5/4 stars[7]
PopMatters (8/10)[2]
Robert Christgau (A-)[8]
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars[9]
The List 4/5 stars[1]
The Skinny 4/5 stars[10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Withered Hand: Good News | PopMatters
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Withered Hand Profile, Absolutely Kosher Records
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Good News, Metacritic
  6. ↑ Withered Hand - Good News | Blurt Magazine
  7. ↑ Withered Hand | Good News - CD Reviews
  8. ↑ Robert Christgau: CG: withered
  9. ↑ Good News | Album Reviews | Rolling Stone
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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