How I Loved You
by The Angels of Light
- Type: Album
- Released: 20 March 2001
- Label: Young God
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:09:51
- Community rating: 4.02/5 from 13 ratings
Artists on this release: Bliss Blood, Eszter Balint, Kid Congo Powers, Larry Mullins, Siobhan Duffy, Thor Harris, Patrick Fondiller, Joe McGinty, Stephen Moses, Larry Moses, Dana Schechter, Birgit Staudt, Kevin O'Connor, David Garland, Bryin Dall, Devendra Banhart, Kristof Hahn
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Michael Gira鈥檚 post-Swans project, The Angels of Light, delivers a hauntingly romantic and poetic masterwork on 'How I Loved You'. The album utilizes lush acoustic instrumentation and gothic country tropes to explore themes of intense devotion and sombre longing.
Genres
Descriptors: folk, confessional, ballad, acoustic, orchestral, male-vocals, storytelling, bleak
Tracklist
- Evangeline (08:45)
- Untitled Love Song (04:54)
- My True Body (06:04)
- Jennifer's Sorry (03:41)
- Song For Nico (04:07)
- New York City In The Future (11:54)
- My Suicide (05:41)
- New York Girls (08:11)
- Public Embarrassment Blues (04:46)
- Two Women (11:48)
Credits
- The Angels of Light - Member
- Larry Mullins - Member, composed by [intro composed by], drums [drumset], timpani, vibraphone, organ [farfisa vip 600], tambourine, castanets, glockenspiel, bells [sleighbells]
- vibraphone - Member
- Thor Harris - Member, dulcimer [hammer dulcimer], piano, backing vocals
- other - Member
- Dana Schechter - Member, bass guitar, backing vocals, piano, melodica
- Joe McGinty - Member
- Kristof Hahn - Member, composed by [intro composed by], lap steel guitar, electric guitar
- David Garland - Member
- Bryin Dall - Member
- Patrick Fondiller - Member
- Kevin O'Connor - Member
- Kid Congo Powers - Member
- Stephen Moses - Member
- Larry Moses - Member
- Eszter Balint - Member
- Devendra Banhart - Member
- Siobhan Duffy - Member, backing vocals
- Birgit Staudt - accordion, melodica, piano, synthesizer [casio], backing vocals
- Michael Gira - arranged by [final arrangements], design [package design], producer, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, words by, music by
- Joseph Budenholzer - artwork [execution]
- Bliss Blood - backing vocals, ukulele [ukelele], saw [musical saw]
- Chris Griffin - mastered by
- Doug Henderson - mixed by, edited by, overdubbed by [overdubs], recorded by [re-recording]
- Hillary Johnson - recorded by [additional]
- Chad Swahnberg - recorded by [basic tracks recorded by]