A Long, Lovely List of Repairs

Artist	Amelia
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Adrenaline
Producer	Mark Orton
Release Date	2008 04 22
Song List	1: Enemigo (2:53) 2: Farewell (4:11) 3: Tragedy (2:59) 4: After You (3:02) 5: Try (3:15) 6: The End (1:20) 7: Dolores (3:46) 8: Thick as Thieves (1:38) 9: Sugar Falls (2:46) 10: The Great Escape (3:38) 11: Eyesore (2:56) 12: Cover the Leak (2:02) 13: Needlework (3:16) 14: Here We Are (2:15)
Style.Categories	Americana, Alternative Country

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Amelia isn't another pop singer missing her last name, but a quartet with singer-drummer Teisha Helgerson and multiple instrumentalists Scott Weddle, Jesse Emerson, and Mark Orton. With a breathy, mid-range vocalist and three multiple instrumentalists, Amelia displays a great deal of versatility on A Long, Lovely List of Repairs. Perhaps the title will seem a bit nonsensical, but it does a good job at suggesting the smoky Americana that the band delivers on songs like "Tragedy" and "Farewell." While the arrangements vary quite a bit, they work toward a similar spacious sound, creating lots of atmosphere. In this sense, Amelia generates a down-to-earth vibe that lands somewhere between the Be Good Tanyas and the Tarbox Ramblers (that might be thought of as neo-Americana). This works wonderfully when Amelia remembers to switch tempos from song to song, but less well when a mellow song like "After You" feeds into a mellow song like "Try." When this happens, A Long, Lovely List of Repairs begins to sound like an arty version of Norah Jones' Feels Like Home. This becomes more of a problem as the album reaches the halfway point, and one starts to realize that Amelia just isn't too big on up-tempo songs. Taken one at a time, many of the songs on A Long, Lovely List of Repairs might stand out on the radio; as a whole piece, though, the album lacks the variety needed to match its lovely atmosphere. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide