You Were a Diamond

by Clem Snide

You Were a Diamond cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1998-01-01
  • Label: spinART Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:37
  • Community rating: 3.29/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Clem Snide's debut 'You Were a Diamond' pairs Eef Barzelay's dry, literate songwriting with sparse alt-country and slowcore arrangements. The songs lean on understatement, letting small melodic turns and plainspoken detail carry their melancholy.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, ballad, traditional, personal

Tracklist

  1. Better (3:54)
  2. Nick Drake Tape (4:07)
  3. Row (4:11)
  4. Your Night To Shine (3:58)
  5. I Can't Stay Here Tonight (3:23)
  6. Yip/Jump Music (3:49)
  7. Uglier Than You (3:01)
  8. Fruit Salad Stains (4:37)
  9. Lost On The River (3:04)
  10. Nothing Is Over, Not Yet (3:56)
  11. Chinese Baby (2:33)
  12. Your Night To Shine (Video) (29:04)

Credits

  • Jason Glasser - cello, violin, bells, painting [paintings on glass]
  • Eef Barzelay - guitar, vocals, written-by

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