Artist     : A Fine Frenzy
Album      : One Cell in the Sea
Label      : Virgin
Genre      : Indie
Bitrate    : 176 kbps avg
Source     : CD (LP)
Playtime   : 01:01:45  (81.7MB)
Rls date   : 2007-07-11
Store date : 2007-07-17


[Track List]
1. Come On, Come Out                               3:35
2. The Minnow & The Trout                          4:28
3. Whisper                                         4:56
4. You Picked Me                                   4:23
5. Rangers                                         4:33
6. Almost Lover                                    4:28
7. Think Of You                                    4:06
8. Ashes And Wine                                  4:20
9. Liar, Liar                                      5:55
10.Last Of Days                                    4:12
11.Lifesize                                        3:44
12.Near To You                                     4:35
13.Hope For The Hopeless                           4:17
14.Borrowed Time                                   4:13


A FINE FRENZY - THE STORY

For the longest time, she lived her life looking through
the wrong end of a telescope. She liked to see life from
far away, from her window and in her mind..s eye. Her
daily ritual, dreaming of what was to come and reveling in
the antics of her ant-sized neighbors, helped take the
edge off of the bothersome treading of water that
otherwise filled her days. A safe, sterile, sweet,
uncompromising view of life from the eyes of an outsider.
A spectator. One day, bored and peevish as her favorite
neighbor (a crotchety old lady who made it her business to
collect leaves from the street, one by errant one, and
shake her cane at passing strollers), she cast the
telescope aside. The glass shattered and the room was
silent. She rubbed her eyes and called for help. No one
came. She sat and she cried and she cut her hands on the
broken glass, but still, nothing.
After a matter of seconds, minutes, hours (they were all
the same to her, for she had no perspective for which to
call her own), the tears stopped and she stood. Bandages
on her hands, she swept up the wreckage of her precious
telescope and surveyed the damage. Her head swam and her
eyes hurt, but she felt something stirring deep within
her. She did not know what to feel, for feeling was for
other girls. For her, it had always been a prospect, a
theory, as had most other things. Whatever was going on,
she liked it, in a perverse sort of way, for such was her
mood.
She stepped out into the garden and took a deep breath.
Ecstasy. She had seen others do this, but she had never
done so herself. ..What else have I missed?.. she
wondered. At this, she began to run. ..Running is better
than flying,.. thought the girl, ..for flying is for the
dreamers and running can be done by anyone, anywhere.
There is beauty in this...
It was a day like no other. She plunged herself into a
stream and felt the ice crawl through her veins. Running
until the shivering stopped, she picked wildflowers in a
field and got scratched by a feral cat. She sang at the
top of her lungs, and though she didn't know what she was
singing, it felt as natural as breathing. She danced with
a scrubby looking little boy heading home after a fight at
school, his nose bloody and his right eye fast turning
blue. He gave her a strange look and walked on, but she
caught him grinning once he thought he was out of eyeshot.
Her clothes were dirty, her hair wild, but her smile was
radiant. She was happy in the here-and-now for the first
time since she could remember. She did not miss her little
telescope at all, though she thought she might get it
repaired, if only to have it serve as a reminder of how
not to go about things.
..What a fine frenzy I..m in,.. she thought with a smile.
..A fine frenzy indeed. What a lovely state...

A Fine Frenzy is the music of 21 year-old Alison Sudol.

Born in Seattle to dramatic-arts teacher parents, Alison
moved to Los Angeles at the age five. With her newly
single mother, Alison moved frequently around the city.
She developed a strong love for the fantastic literary
worlds of CS Lewis, EB White, Lewis Carroll and Charles
Dickens, while becoming a passionate author in her own
right.

Alison also immersed herself in classical music, Motown,
Aretha Franklin, swing bands, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John,
Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Technicolor movies and
classic 1950's television.

After teaching herself to play piano, Alison increasingly
invested her internal narratives into song form. She found
solace in the melodic melancholia of new global British
bands Aqualung, Radiohead, Coldplay and Keane, etc... She
was also moved by the diatonic minimalism of Philip Glass
and the transportive allure of Icelandic music (Bjork,
Sigur Ros.) Inspired, Alison developed the sound of A Fine
Frenzy - hypnotic piano arrangements under classic
American melody fused into irresistible, atmospheric songs
with the power to reach around the world.