Lovers - I Was the East

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1.	Lovers - Igloos for Ojos (Original Version) 03:12	buy track
2.	Lovers - Tonight (Original Version) 03:49	buy track
3.	Lovers - How Beautiful You Are 02:39	buy track
4.	Lovers - Let's Stay Lost (Original Version) 03:31	buy track
5.	Lovers - How the Story Ends (Original Version) 03:53	buy track
6.	Lovers - I Have Been the Moon 03:09	buy track
7.	Lovers - Stay Another Night (Original Version) 04:22	buy track
8.	Lovers - Dark Scar 03:45	buy track
9.	Lovers - Rabbits 03:17	buy track
10.	Lovers - This Is The Last Song 03:03	buy track

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Back In 2006, when Carolyn Berk lived in Athens, GA, she recorded a series of songs that would later become the basis of her 2009 album I Am The West. These songs are the beginnings of the shift from acoustic singer-songwriter to the blend of electronics, drums and guitar that are the background of Lovers current sound.

This collection of early recordings includes four songs that were not included elsewhere.

“Carolyn Berk’s songs are full of breathless melancholy and a sinking, infinite sadness. In them you hear hints of the circus-fuineral magic-realist run-on folk song of Neutral Milk Hotel, the dreamy twilight grandeur of Mazzy Star, Bright Eyes’ last-gasp soliloquies, and the ghost-haunted majesty of Magnetic Fields’ loneliest highways. But I’ll be damned if Berk isn’t a more entrancing spell-caster that any of them.” – The Boston Phoenix

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released December 5, 2011

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Lovers Portland, Oregon

Loud and proud, Portland, OR based Lovers is a band of emotional intensity and complexity. Their album Dark Light begins with singer Carolyn Berk’s confession, “every time the music starts, I can feel my aching, shaking heart,” and from there, Lovers embark on a spiritual journey of inspired three-part harmonies, deep introspection, and next-wave humor. ... more

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