Pain Is A Reliable Signal: Album Information
Pain Is A Reliable Signal is the debut album from New York-based The Flying Change. If you’ve landed on this page, you’ve earned the right to download it for free. The reviews are uniformly positive but don’t take my word for it. Check out our Press Page. It’s been called “haunting“, “aural bliss“, “achingly beautiful” “life affirming” “elegaic” and, of course, “album of the year“.
Grab a free copy of any individual song or the whole album in a zip file. Please re-tweet, re-post, blog about it and enjoy!
- Broken Bow
- The Mayo Clinic
- Dirty White Coats
- If You See Something
- The Ways That We Destroy Ourselves
- Hold My Heartache
- St. Mary's
- Don't Look Away
- Burning A Horse
- The Northern Bay
- Pain Is A Reliable Signal (Full Album)
From the bio:
Pain is a Reliable Signal draws deeply from the medical journey into which Jacobs and his family were thrust. Four years ago, Sam’s wife began experiencing nerve pain. Subsequent surgeries were unhelpful. Further consultations led the couple to the Mayo Clinic where doctors informed them they knew of no immediate remedy. His wife continues to experience physical pain, yet, despite these challenges, has managed to build a successful jewelry business, working hard, focusing her effort and overcoming the obstacles life has presented her. Painrelives this story in familiar themes of love, loss, reckoning, and redemptionspoken in words fluid and incisive.
Jacobs enlisted friend, acclaimed songwriter, producer and award-winning film composer Paul Brill to guide and shape the recording. Together they assembled a stellar band of accomplished musicians; recorded live in two takes by master engineer Robert L. Smith (David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, etc.), the album features performances by Rob Burger (Iron and Wine, Lucinda Williams) Bill Dobrow (Sean Lennon, Martha Wainwright, Black Crowes), Amber Rubarth, Antoine Silverman, Anja Wood, Matt Ray, Rob Jost (Imogen Heap, Jesse Harris), Peter Lalish, Dan Levine (They Might Be Giants), Stan Harrison (Radiohead) and others.
Brill and Jacobs gathered these musicians to create a sound they’ve dubbed “landscape pop“. Says Jacobs, “during early editing sessions, Paul went through the songs with a red pen and we kept editing and editing until they were as tight as possible. At the same time, we wanted every moment to be incredibly vivid. Small fragments of melody and emotion.” These moments are everywhere on the record, from the inverted swells of the pedal steel on the opener “Broken Bow” to the swirling ghostlike sax solo on “Hold My Heartache.”
Also, I’ve collected the background on each song here and will be adding to them as I write them:
About each song:
Track #1: Broken Bow
Track #2: The Mayo Clinic
Track #3: Dirty White Coats
Track #4: If You See Something
Track #5: The Ways That We Destroy Ourselves
Track #6: Hold My Heartache
Track #7: St. Marys
Track #8: Don’t Look Away
Track #9: Burning a Horse
Track #10: The Northern Bay (coming soon)
