Good News (Withered Hand album)

Good News
Studio album by Withered Hand
Released 14 September 2009 (in the UK on B&D), 5 March 2011 (on Absolutely Kosher)
Genre Indie rock
Length 38:57
Label SL
Absolutely Kosher
Producer Kramer[1]
Withered Hand chronology
Good News
(2011)		 New Gods
(2014)New Gods2014

Good News is the first full-length album by Scottish visual artist Dan Willson, d/b/a Withered Hand. Originally released on 14 September 2009 in the UK on SL Records, it was re-released on Absolutely Kosher Records in 2011 in the US.[2] The album's title is a reference to Willson's upbringing as an Jehovah's Witness.[3]

Maggoty Lamb has written that "If you want to hear an album that genuinely does justice to the manna-from-heaven style succour that Domino Records' pre-Franz Ferdinand roster of US acoustic misfits gave to those wandering in the post-Britpop wilderness, Good News by Withered Hand...is the one to go for. Not so much for its explicit acknowledgement of aesthetic debt (lines about writing "the Silver Jews" on people's shoulder bags will only take you so far) as for the authentically homegrown twist the songwriting manages to put on its transatlantic influences."[4]

The album was funded by the Scottish Arts Council.[3]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic85/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Blurtpositive[7]
The List[1]
MSN MusicA–[8]
The Phoenix[9]
PopMatters[2]
Rolling Stone[10]
The Skinny[11]

Track listing

  1. "Providence"
  2. "Cornflake"
  3. "Love in the Time of Ecstasy"
  4. "Joy"
  5. "New Dawn"
  6. "Religious Songs"
  7. "No Cigarettes"
  8. "I Am Nothing"
  9. "Hard On"
  10. "For the Maudlin"

References

  1. 1 2 Meighan, Nicola (3 September 2009). "Good News Review". The List. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 Rowland, Stephen (2011-12-01). "Withered Hand: Good News". PopMatters. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  3. 1 2 Withered Hand Profile, Absolutely Kosher Records
  4. ↑ Lamb, Maggoty (23 June 2010). "Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb asks 'What's nu- pussycat?' and finds the devil is in the details". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Good News by Withered Hand". Metacritic. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  6. ↑ Monger, Timothy. "Good News - Withered Hand". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  7. ↑ Judge, Stephen (2011-03-15). "Withered Hand - Good News". Blurt. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  8. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2011-08-16). "Withered Hand/Lykke Li". MSN Music.
  9. ↑ Zaino, Nick (2011-03-17). "Withered Hand - Good News". Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  10. ↑ Hoard, Christian (2011-10-18). "Good News". Rolling Stone.
  11. ↑ Brown, Ally (24 August 2009). "Good News". The Skinny. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
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