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You Look Like Hell

by James Parenti

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Brownout 03:18
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I Know 03:15
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Bones 05:54
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Grew So High 01:46
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Doorframe 03:31
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"You Look Like Hell" is the third and newest album from James Parenti. It's a horror-film love story.


"....a sensual heart-spinner all done up in fingerpicked guitars and moody reverb.

The album’s opener, “Brownout,” creeps in like a vengeful fog as though Jeff Buckley had risen from the grave. Parenti’s delicate tenor voice sails carefully over splashes of cymbals and earthy guitars.

Beneath the dark, layered rhapsodic waxing, the twelve melancholic tracks of "You Look Like Hell" showcase a songwriter aching to soothe a wound with poetry."
-Michael Raver, Huffington Post

"He may be new to me but by the time the soft ethereal opening harmonies of "Bones" are drifting out of my speakers I can honestly say that I am ready to fall in love with his latest release...

It is his ability to lift these songs into higher states that changes everything...some interesting sonic choices, ones that move the music out of the obvious and into the beguiling.

This is the sound of modern indie folk pushing into dream-pop realms, commercial guitar playing reminding us that there are other, better, more articulate and more emotive ways of doing things. It may look like hell but it sounds like heaven."
-Dave Franklin, Dancing About Architecture

"Parenti effortlessly merges elements of indie rock, folk, and chamber pop into a cohesive, oftentimes cinematic whole. Lush and full of life, these songs linger in the mind long after they are over. Vocals rest at the very heart of the album, guiding it along with an almost surreal scope.

...possesses a quality that conjures up images of Low’s best early work, right down to the honeyed chorus woven into the song’s very DNA.

“You Look Like Hell” reveals James Parenti’s impressive storytelling abilities nestled within warm welcoming arrangements that truly glimmer."
-BeachSloth.com

credits

released August 16, 2017

All songs written, recorded and performed by James Parenti.

“Brownout” and “Welcome You Down” written by James Parenti and Krystle Phelps.

Featuring: Audrey Lobdell (vocals), Jared Mancuso (drums), Luke Markham (drums), Trish Phelps (vocals).

Cover drawing by Sarah C. Swift.
Cover design and layout by Krystle Phelps.

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James Parenti Queens, New York

James Parenti has been playing his moody, elegiac songs in NYC since 2007. The years of honing his craft resulted in his first album, Maybe That's Why We Lost, which has been called "unique and original" by Catalogue Reviews and "elegant...a rich, complex listening experience" by TheSirensSound. ... more

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