Alela Diane | ||
 | Album: 1 of 10 Title: The Pirates Gospel Released: 2004 Tracks: 13 Duration: 38:33 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Tired Feet (02:41) 2 The Rifle (02:43) 3 The Pirates Gospel (02:55) 4 Foreign Tongue (03:21) 5 Can You Blame the Sky? (02:28) 6 Somethings Gone Awry (01:06) 7 Pieces of String (02:51) 8 Clickity Clack (03:50) 9 Sister Self (03:25) 10 Pigeon Song (02:12) 11 Oh! My Mama (04:14) 12 Heavy Walls (03:29) 13 Gypsy Eyes (03:14) |
 | Album: 2 of 10 Title: To Be Still Released: 2009-02-16 Tracks: 11 Duration: 47:13 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Dry Grass & Shadows (03:11) 2 White as Diamonds (03:36) 3 Age Old Blue (03:59) 4 To Be Still (05:26) 5 Take Us Back (04:43) 6 The Alder Trees (03:27) 7 My Brambles (04:58) 8 The Ocean (03:42) 9 Every Path (04:12) 10 Tatted Lace (04:47) 11 Lady Divine (05:12) |
| To Be Still : Allmusic album Review : Like THE PIRATE’S GOSPEL, her debut, TO BE STILL, the follow-up release from alternative folk artist Alela Diane, is an intimate, haunting affair that showcases her songwriting and singing skills. Focused chiefly on Diane’s voice and acoustic guitar, TO BE STILL recalls both the classic female folk singers like Karen Dalton and the spookier, more associative dimensions of contemporary artists like Marissa Nadler and Nina Nastasia. But while her voice lilts and lulls, it’s the poetry of her lyrics and their evocative narratives that make this sophomore effort truly shine. | ||
 | Album: 3 of 10 Title: Take Us Back Released: 2009-06-16 Tracks: 3 Duration: 09:33 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Take Us Back (alternate version) (03:14) 2 Fat Mama (03:17) 3 Dusty Attic (03:01) |
 | Album: 4 of 10 Title: Alela & Alina Released: 2009-10-06 Tracks: 6 Duration: 22:35 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Amidst the Movement (03:51) 2 Bowling Green (02:52) 3 Crying Wolf (03:43) 4 Matty Groves (04:44) 5 I Have Returned (03:16) 6 Rake (04:09) |
 | Album: 5 of 10 Title: Home Recordings & B-Sides From the Wild Divine Sessions Released: 2011-04-04 Tracks: 6 Duration: 19:51 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Adelaide (04:26) 2 Eastward Still (03:15) 3 Desire (piano demo) (02:43) 4 Long Way Down (acoustic demo) (03:25) 5 Creek Dont Rise (03:10) 6 The Way It Is (02:49) |
 | Album: 6 of 10 Title: Alela Diane & Wild Divine Released: 2011-04-04 Tracks: 10 Duration: 38:08 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 To Begin (03:33) 2 Elijah (03:15) 3 Long Way Down (03:04) 4 Suzanne (04:11) 5 The Wind (04:30) 6 Of Many Colors (04:31) 7 Desire (02:18) 8 Heartless Highway (03:36) 9 White Horse (04:20) 10 Rising Greatness (04:43) |
 | Album: 7 of 10 Title: About Farewell Released: 2013-06-25 Tracks: 10 Duration: 33:04 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Colorado Blue (03:29) 2 About Farewell (03:21) 3 The Way We Fall (05:04) 4 Nothing I Can Do (02:24) 5 Lost Land (03:26) 6 I Thought I Knew (02:08) 7 Before the Leaving (02:56) 8 Hazel Street (03:10) 9 Black Sheep (03:53) 10 Rose & Thorn (03:10) |
| About Farewell : Allmusic album Review : The first widely available release by the Nevada City-born singer/songwriter Alela Diane was a 2006 edition of The Pirates Gospel. That record appeared in the wake of breakthrough releases by artists such as Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom and, as a result, shared the quirks and eccentricities of many other so-called freak folk albums of the time. Three albums on, although the songs that make up About Farewell were written during and after the ending of her seven-year relationship with Denver co-founder Tom Bevitori, here Diane betrays an assured, calm, confident, and marginally deeper-toned vocal throughout which barely resembles her Newsom-inspired delivery of The Pirates Gospel. Perhaps closest in sound to her acclaimed 2009 release To Be Still, About Farewell has a comparatively starker production value which suits the albums somber subject matter. Gone are the lavish washes of pedal steel leaving space between Dianes intense and diary-like, but never overbearing, lyrics. While her ex-husband, Bevitori, played electric guitar in the Wild Divine -- the backing band for her uncharacteristically raucous 2011 album -- here Dianes rudimentary acoustic fingerpicking and strumming add a personal, characterful touch to an album that impresses with its honesty and integrity. There are stand-out instrumental flourishes throughout -- such as the barroom honky tonk piano of "Nothing I Can Do," the layered, Laurel Canyon vibe of "Black Sheep," and the beautifully delicate coda to opener "Colorado Blue" -- but what impresses most is Dianes measured account of her circumstances. We learn from the title track that she instigated the break-up, and we also know that were far from scathing Blood on the Tracks territory when we hear: "The brightest lights cast the biggest shadow/So honey, Ive got to let you go." "Colorado Blue" uses imagery of snow to simultaneously represent the cold finality of a relationships end and the fresh white sheet of opportunity that it brings. Equally poetic is album-closer "Rose & Thorn" when she sings "I left those words a-hangin like a ruined dress." While theres a similarly reflective tone throughout, its surely not an accident that the artwork features two separate images of Diane. One image appears to study the other and that premise encapsulates About Farewell. The albums a cathartic self-study, executed without drama, during a time of major personal upheaval, and it will truly resonate with anyone whos ever found themselves at the end of a relationship. | ||
 | Album: 8 of 10 Title: About Farewell B-Sides & Scenic Burrows Sessions Released: 2014-07-14 Tracks: 6 Duration: 23:17 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 The Girl in Gray (03:11) 2 The King (04:04) 3 Colorado Blue (Acoustic Version) (03:50) 4 About Farewell (Acoustic Version) (03:25) 5 The Way We Fall (Acoustic Version) (05:06) 6 Lost Land (Acoustic Version) (03:41) |
 | Album: 9 of 10 Title: Cold Moon Released: 2015-10-16 Tracks: 8 Duration: 37:26 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Quiet Corner (05:10) 2 Migration (06:59) 3 The Sun Today (02:52) 4 No Thought of Leaving (02:31) 5 Cold Moon (04:45) 6 Shapeless (03:45) 7 Shift (03:44) 8 Roy (07:40) |
 | Album: 10 of 10 Title: Cusp Released: 2018-02-09 Tracks: 11 Duration: 38:09 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples AlbumCover | 1 Albatross (03:53) 2 The Threshold (02:59) 3 Moves Us Blind (02:57) 4 Émigré (03:11) 5 Never Easy (03:43) 6 Song for Sandy (03:45) 7 Buoyant (03:15) 8 Ether & Wood (04:23) 9 Yellow Gold (03:20) 10 So Tired (03:43) 11 Wild Ceaseless Song (03:00) |