Name: Labor Against Waste
Brand: ANTI
SKU: 62502525
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Labor Against Waste

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Album: Labor Against Waste
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Warm Enemy	More Info...	0:03
2)	Revenge	More Info...	0:04
3)	Scarecrow	More Info...	0:04
4)	Castle	More Info...	0:04
5)	Horse	More Info...	0:03
6)	Death of Influence	More Info...	0:05
7)	Dear Beast	More Info...	0:03
8)	Hard Work	More Info...	0:03
9)	Burial Shroud	More Info...	0:05
10)	Too Far North	More Info...	0:04

Album: Labor Against Waste
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Warm Enemy	More Info...	0:03
2)	Revenge	More Info...	0:04
3)	Scarecrow	More Info...	0:04
4)	Castle	More Info...	0:04
5)	Horse	More Info...	0:03
6)	Death of Influence	More Info...	0:05
7)	Dear Beast	More Info...	0:03
8)	Hard Work	More Info...	0:03
9)	Burial Shroud	More Info...	0:05
10)	Too Far North	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

Recording information: Columbia Theatre, Providence, RI; The Hock Studio, Brooklyn, NY.
The sophomore long-player and Anti debut from Brooklyn-based, Florida-bred singer/songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling, Labor Against Waste draws from a wide spectrum of American roots music, from backwoods gospel and blues to bucolic folk and road trip-ready country. A dazzling finger-picker to boot, Stelling cites influences such as John Fahey, Van Morrison, Mississippi John Hurt, Waylon Jennings, Bob Dylan, Roscoe Holcomb, and Skip James, but there's a real Van Morrison/Damien Rice vibe at work here as well, especially on some of the album's less ardent cuts like "Scarecrow" and "Too Far North." Stelling sings and writes with the conviction and sincerity of a road-tested troubadour, and he's at his best and most fevered when the pace goes from a trot to a full-on gallop. There's a nervy energy that runs through the album that belies its more or less spartan arrangements and string band setup. Despite keeping the proceedings completely acoustic, Stelling manages to achieve rock-level decibels on stand-out cuts like the bustling "Hard Work," the rowdy, Led Zeppelin III-inspired "Horse," and the spirited opener "Warm Enemy," the latter of which features enough six-string fireworks to, at the very least, earn the still young virtuoso a temporary seat at the table with the likes of Fahey and company. ~ James Christopher Monger

Professional Reviews

Paste (magazine) - "[The album is] the songsmith's most masterfully crafted effort to date....Pulsating opener 'Warm Enemy' bursts with the brightness of a sunrise as Stelling greets the day with wide-awake fingerpicking and spirited stomps and claps."