The third album in four years from song interpreter extraordinaire Madeleine Peyroux, Bare Bones is a bold step into previously unexplored psychological terrain. This fluid and enthralling new work is Peyroux’s most personal yet, hardly surprising considering she had a hand in writing each of the 11 songs, marking the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

Perhaps the biggest surprise here is that every now and then the clouds break, offering a glimpse of a newfound, and hard-earned, lightheartedness—not something one would associate with this deep, deadly serious artist, whose previous outings have been steeped in melancholy.

“I’ve been working toward this all along,” she points out. “I don’t think that we can really know drama without knowing comedy. They need each other in order to be real and complete. So in a sense I’m trying to push the envelope of that subtle marriage between two opposites—happy and sad, tragic and comic or grief and renewal.”

“In a lot of ways, this record is my attempt at expressing a philosophy of life,” she elaborates. “That’s why I decided to call it Bare Bones—because most of these songs are a way of excavating the essence of what I think matters.”

Bare Bones
Track List
1. Instead
2. Bare Bones
3. Damn The Circumstances
4. River Of Tears
5. You Can't Do Me
6. Love And Treachery
7. Our Lady Of Pigalle
8. Homeless Happiness
9. To Love You All Over Again
10. I Must Be Saved
11. Somethin' Grand

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