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Zo<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> Strickland | Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTracyanne & Danny\u201d is the perfect album for a calm summer\u2019s day. The songs are dreamy, carefree and border on sounding old fashioned. Though listening to the entire album at once may make listener\u2019s eyes heavy, the duo has a select number of tracks that pick up the beat. While the album is good, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be listening to it in its entirety again. Rather, I\u2019ll add a few songs to my listening library and move on. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTracyanne & Danny\u201d is the first album from Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell and Crybaby\u2019s Danny Coughlan. The duo presents a sound that listeners of each individual artist\u2019s other work would expect; Campbell\u2019s unique vocals join with Coughlan\u2019s overall calm musical stylings to create a beautifully retro-sounding array of tunes. <\/span><\/p>\n Though most of the album has a more relaxed sound to it, tracks like \u201cAlabama\u201d and \u201cCellophane Girl\u201d bring up the tempo.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cO\u2019Keefe\u201d is my personal favorite song on the record. A duet with the slow percussion, piano and harmonica make the track sound bittersweet \u2014 like it should play during a break-up scene of a foreign romantic film. <\/span><\/p>\n While Tracyanne & Danny is a collaborative project, Campbell and Coughlan work as separate entities \u2014 individual songs are primarily sung by one artist or the other, with the opposite adding in backing vocals. By doing this, the artists give each other space on the album to embrace their own sounds. For Campbell, this means songs like \u201cAlabama,\u201d which could be something straight from Camera Obscura\u2019s discography. For Coughlan, this means his slower, dreamy, acoustic sounds, like those found in \u201cDeep in the Night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTracyanne & Danny\u201d is the perfect album for fans of Campbell and Coughlan\u2019s other musical ventures, or for people who enjoy She & Him and Elizabeth & the Catapult.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contact the author at journaleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Photo courtesy of:\u00a0www.tracyanneanddanny.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zo\u00eb Strickland | Editor-in-Chief \u201cTracyanne & Danny\u201d is the perfect album for a calm summer\u2019s day. The songs are dreamy, carefree and border on sounding old fashioned. Though listening to the entire album at once may make listener\u2019s eyes heavy, the duo has a select number of tracks that pick up the beat. While the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}