Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2 (Remaster), by The Green Pajamas

Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2 (Remaster)

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Original CD remastered for double vinyl with five previously unreleased bonus tracks! Available in icy blue or black.

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1.	Katie's Gone 05:25	buy track
2.	Until The Daylight 04:26	buy track
3.	When Abigail Was 17 04:53	buy track
4.	Eyes Of A Stranger 03:53	buy track
5.	Wild Pony 04:50	buy track
6.	Walk Hard 03:55	buy track
7.	I Just Want To Be Your Friend 04:06	buy track
8.	When You're Good To Me 04:30	buy track
9.	Blue Eyes To Haunt Me 03:22	buy track
10.	La Diabla 04:24	buy track
11.	Box of Secrets 03:08	buy track
12.	The Coroner's House 02:59	buy track
13.	Cold Love 04:00	buy track
14.	Addiction 03:55	buy track
15.	Hidden Lake 05:01	buy track
16.	Into The Woods 04:51	buy track
17.	Valarie Rose 03:50	buy track
18.	She Is A Dream 03:24	buy track
19.	Eyes Of A Stranger (Mix 1) 04:00	buy track
20.	Cold Love (Live) 03:34	buy track
21.	Addiction (Original Version) 03:58	buy track

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Sound-Effect issues The Green Pajamas’ BOX OF SECRETS: NORTHERN GOTHIC 2

‘Wake up late to an early freeze
Black eyes and skeleton trees
The cold Pacific shivers at me,
“Why don’t you go back home…”’

So states Jeff Kelly in the first verse of the first song on the album, BOX OF SECRETS: NORTHERN GOTHIC 2, and we find ourselves somewhere out on the coast of Washington state in the Pacific Northwest: ‘Walk the beach in a lonely mist / Can’t see the water but I hear the hiss / Makes me think of the first time we kissed / In the ocean foam’. All of Kelly’s usual songwriting elements are here: melancholia, lost love, a vivid landscape, longing. These familiar Kelly-isms can be heard throughout BOX OF SECRETS yet there was a new urgency in this music originally released in 2007, as if Kelly wanted to reaffirm that this was first, after all, a rock and roll band, and a very American one at that. There is a lack of the English-inspired whimsy found on some of the earlier Green Pajamas albums. Songs like “Wild Pony” and “Cold Love” find oversaturated electric guitars and peaked out drums providing the soundtrack to tales of the kind of small town down-and-outers that haunt American Film Noir; of witches, murderers and lost souls - like the woman who inexplicably takes a wrong turn off of Highway 4 and ends up at Hidden Lake…

‘Thirteen miles down a crooked road
There’s a place where day don’t break
And the thick green water is deep and cold
In Hidden Lake’

Critic, Stewart Mason, writing for the All Music Guide in 2007, said this about BOX OF SECRETS: ‘Early press for the album claimed it was a putative concept album about the bandmembers' childhood memories, but as always, Kelly (and [Eric] Lichter and multi-instrumentalist Laura Weller, who provide three songs between them) is more interested in mood and compelling shards of imagery than telling coherent stories. This is no bad thing, because the Green Pajamas have proven themselves masters of mood-altering psychedelic folk-rock, and other than the Bevis Frond, there just aren't that many current bands out there who understand all three strands of that sound so well.’

So we have here the second installment of Sound-Effect’s series of reissues of The Green Pajamas’ Northern Gothic trilogy and the obvious prequel to PHANTOM LAKE: NORTHERN GOTHIC 3. We believe there is a timeless quality to the music on these albums. The Green Pajamas are very happy to see these songs given a chance to be appreciated anew via our latest double-vinyl LP edition of BOX OF SECRETS, including five bonus tracks, with a limited number pressed on electric blue vinyl.

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The Green Pajamas formed in the spring of 1984 when Jeff Kelly and Joe Ross recorded and released their first album, 'Summer Of Lust,' pioneering Seattle’s answer to the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene.
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