Ed Hale

FREE ED HALE BALLAD ON THIRD AVENUE CDs FOR YOUR STATION’S CONTEST GIVEAWAYS!

To get your hands on some FREE contest giveaway CDs of the new Ballad on Third Avenue album by Transcendence lead singer/guitarist Ed Hale for your college radio station contact The Syndicate: Karen@thesyn.com

“Dying Van Gogh Records singer-songwriter Ed Hale, best known over the last few years as the lead singer for the indie rock/Brit pop outfit Transcendence, snuck into the recording studio late last year and produced the most personal and intimate album of his career. (With fellow Transcendence guitarist and Dreaming In StereoNothing Is Cohesive CD, or the indie rock and Brit pop of their Sleep With You CD, Hale instead turned inward and turned the volume way, way down; creating a surprisingly quiet, moving and at times haunting acoustic whisper-pop album.” frontman Fernando Perdomo playing engineer and co-producer). Rather than further exploring the seventy’s glam rock of their

“Gone are the pounding drumbeats, squealing guitars, layered vocals, thumping bass, and that oh so very Transcendence experimental ‘wall of noise and sound.’ (At least for the time being that is: The band’s newest album All Your Heroes Become Villains is due to be released in September of this year.) Instead the singer’s first solo album in many years contains 11 tracks that are a sparse and luxuriant tangle of acoustic guitars, pianos, organs, xylophones, lush cello lines, and mellotron flourishes that set a subtle and gorgeous sonic backdrop perfectly fit to back up a lyrically poignant and confessional masterpiece of infinite beauty and tenderness. The majestic acoustic-pop and vulnerable intimacy of Ed Hale’s new album Ballad on Third Avenue will feel right at home to the same crowd that loves the music of Wes Anderson films, Rubber Soul era Beatles, Kings of Convenience, Bright Eyes, David Gray, Simon and Garfunkel, or even Donovan or Nick Drake. From start to finish the deceptively simple collection of songs sucks you in and leaves you moved, smiling, and dreamy-eyed.”

To request FREE CDs for your station for contest giveaways of the new Ballad On Third Avenuealbum by Ed Hale contact: Karen@thesyn.com

TRACK LISTING

1. SCENE IN SAN FRANCISCO
2. I WALK ALONE
3. HELLO MY DOVE
4. INCOMPATIBLE
5. BALLAD ON THIRD AVENUE (BEAUTIFUL LOSERS)
6. IT FEELS TOO GOOD
7. EVERYWHERE SHE IS THERE
8. NEW ORLEANS DREAMS
9. ARCHITECT’S DAUGHTER
10. THOUGHTS OF CALIFORNIA
11. NEVER LET ME GO AGAIN