Powder Burns

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Powder Burns | type = [[Album]] | artist = [[The Twilight Singers]] | cover = TwilightSingers-PowderBurns.jpg | alt = | released = May 16, 2006 | recorded = 2005–2006 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Indie rock]], [[alternative rock]] | length = 48:48 | language = [[English language|English]] | label = [[One Little Indian Records|One Little Indian]] | producer = [[Greg Dulli]], Mike Napolitano | prev_title = [[She Loves You (The Twilight Singers album)|She Loves You]] | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = [[A Stitch in Time (EP)]] | next_year = 2006 | misc = {{Singles | name = Powder Burns | type = studio | single1 = There's Been an Accident | single1date = May 15, 2006 | single2 = I'm Ready | single2date = July 10, 2006 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = [[Allmusic]] |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r828351|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> |rev2 = [[Pitchfork Media]] |rev2score = (7.9/10)<ref>[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/36535/Twilight_Singers_Powder_Burns Pitchfork Media review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111012103/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/36535/Twilight_Singers_Powder_Burns |date=2007-01-11 }}</ref> |rev3 = ''[[The Skinny (magazine)|The Skinny]]'' |rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>[http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/35121-twilight-singers-powder-burns The Skinny review]</ref> |rev4 = Transform Online |rev4score = (positive)<ref>[http://www.transformonline.com/music/reviews/004824.php Transform Online review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301052708/http://www.transformonline.com/music/reviews/004824.php |date=2007-03-01 }}</ref> }}

'''''Powder Burns''''' is the fourth album by [[Greg Dulli]]'s [[The Twilight Singers]] (not counting Dulli's solo album ''[[Greg Dulli's Amber Headlights|Amber Headlights]]''). It was released on May 15, 2006, via [[One Little Indian Records]] on CD and double 12" vinyl. ''Powder Burns'' was partly recorded with extra power generators in a deserted [[New Orleans]] studio just after the floods caused by [[Hurricane Katrina]]. The album was also recorded in [[Los Angeles]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Milan]], and [[Catania]].

During the album recording in 2005, Greg Dulli was aided by Manuel Agnelli, of the Italian rock band [[Afterhours (band)|Afterhours]], who co-wrote "My Time (Has Come)" and "The Conversation", the lyrics for which were inspired by the 1974 [[Francis Ford Coppola]] [[The Conversation|film of the same name]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Heavenly Shades|url= http://www.thetwilightsingers.com/heavenly/| accessdate=2014-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title = Living the movie, As sound |url= http://www.thetwilightsingers.com/news/2006/04/living-the-movie-as-sound.php | accessdate= 2014-06-20}}</ref> "My Time (Has Come)" was first released in 2005 as "White Widow" on Afterhours' ''Ballads for Little Hyenas'', which in turn was co-produced by Dulli. Other collaborators on this album are [[Joseph Arthur]], [[Jeff Klein]] and [[Ani DiFranco]]. The same recording sessions yielded the follow-up EP ''[[A Stitch in Time (EP)|A Stitch in Time]]'', released in December 2006.

It was released to extremely positive reviews, and actor/comedian [[Denis Leary]] called it "one of the best rock albums I've heard in 10 years,"<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1198458,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121210831/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1198458,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 21, 2007 |accessdate=2008-04-08 |title=Denis Leary's five favorite songs | magazine=Entertainment Weekly |first=Michael |last=Endelman |date=May 26, 2006 }}</ref> also putting the song "Bonnie Brae" in ''[[Rescue Me (U.S. TV series)|Rescue Me]]'', his [[Emmy]] nominated TV series. Additionally, the song "There's Been an Accident" featured in the 2008 film adaptation of [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s novel, ''[[Choke (2008 film)|Choke]]''.

The Twilight Singers made their live television debut on ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]]'' on January 3, 2007, performing {{YouTube|FSj3cg87Ylw|"Forty Dollars"}} and {{YouTube|caNhjZWfshs|"Sublime"}} (which did not air), both featuring guest guitarist/vocalist Joseph Arthur.

==Track listing== All songs by Dulli except where noted.

=== CD === # "Toward the Waves" – 0:49 # "I'm Ready" – 3:04 # "There's Been an Accident" – 5:17 # "Bonnie Brae" – 4:46 # "Forty Dollars" – 3:51 # "Candy Cane Crawl" – 4:27 # "Underneath the Waves" – 4:28 (Dulli, Skibic) # "My Time (Has Come)" – 4:23 (Dulli, Agnelli) # "Dead to Rights" – 4:25 # "The Conversation" – 3:04 (Dulli, Agnelli) # "Powder Burns" – 5:52 # "I Wish I Was" – 4:20 (Dulli, Ford)

=== Double 12" vinyl === '''Side 1 (''"Once I count the numbers down"''):''' # "Toward the Waves" – 0:49 # "I'm Ready" – 3:04 # "There's Been an Accident" – 5:17 # "Bonnie Brae" – 4:46

'''Side 2 (''"To the end or there around"''):''' # "Forty Dollars" – 3:51 # "Candy Cane Crawl" – 4:27 # "Underneath the Waves" – 4:28

'''Side 3 (''"Free, or thus, forever bound"''):''' # "My Time (Has Come)" – 4:23 # "Dead to Rights" – 4:25 # "The Conversation" – 3:04

'''Side 4 (''"For forever's coming down"''):''' # "Powder Burns" – 5:52 # "I Wish I Was" – 4:20

== Personnel == * [[Greg Dulli]] – vocals (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), guitar (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), bass (2, 5, 8, 10), piano (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9), [[synthesizer]] (1, 2, 3), [[mellotron]] (1, 4, 10, 11), drums (3, 5, 9), [[wurlitzer]] (4, 6, 9), programming (8), [[Rhodes piano|rhodes]] (10, 11, 12) * Peter Adams - organ/synth/mellotron (8) * [[Joseph Arthur]] - vocals (3, 5, 10), [[dobro]] (10) * Scott Bennett - vocals (6) * Bobby Campo - trumpet (12) * [[Dave Catching]] - guitar (9) * Daphne Chen - violin (3, 10, 11) * [[Afghan Whigs|John Curley]] - bass (6) * [[Ani DiFranco]] - vocals (4, 6, 11) * [[Richard Dodd]] - cello (3, 10, 11) * [[Scott Ford (musician)|Scott Ford]] - bass (3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12), [[Sub-bass|subs]] (2), vocals (11) * Sissy Gaines - guitar solo (10) * [[Eric Gorfain]] - violin (3, 10, 11) * Leah Katz - viola (3, 10, 11) * Leta Lucy - vocals (9, 12) * Bobby Macintyre - drums (3, 7), vocals (8), percussion (8) * Mike Napolitano - [[guitorgan]] (6), guitar (8, 9), lead guitar (11) * Roderick Paulin - saxophone (12) * Chris Phillips - percussion (10) * Andy Pizzo - trombone (12) * Dave Rosser - vocals (11) * Mathias Schneeberger - organ (1), guitar (1) * Jon Skibic - guitar (2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12), ambience (4), vocals (7) * Michael Sullivan - bass (8) * Greg Wieczorek - drums (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12), vocals (11), percussion (12)

==Singles== * "There's Been an Accident" (May 15, 2006) ([[Music download|digital download]] and promo CD only) * "I'm Ready" (July 10, 2006) (CD & 7" vinyl) ** "I'm Ready" (radio edit) b/w: "I'm Ready" (Lo-Fidelity Allstars Remix)

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[[Category:The Twilight Singers albums]] [[Category:2006 albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Greg Dulli]]