On Leaving

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On Leaving
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Studio album by
Nina Nastasia
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2006
Genre Folk
Length33:59
Label Fat Cat
Producer Steve Albini
Nina Nastasia chronology
Run to Ruin
(2003)		On Leaving
(2006)		 You Follow Me
(2007)
Professional ratings
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On Leaving is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia. It was released on September 11, 2006, on Fat Cat Records. It was recorded by Steve Albini and produced by Nastasia, Kennan Gudjonsson, and Albini. The album received generally favorable reviews; Allmusic considered the album a "deeply poetic record." [1] Stylus Magazine commented the album was "full bodied and masterful, overshadowing many big-footed leading ladies’ recent folk releases." [2] Pitchfork Media found it "difficult to hear Nastasia pull back to a songwriter-with-guitar style." [3]

Contents

Composition and style

"Jim's Room" is inspired by Nina Nastasia's father, artist James "Jim" Nastasia, and his series of still-life paintings titled "Francis". Francis was a nude model in her late late 60s or early 70s, whom Nina frequently encountered in her childhood. The song references Nina's memories of both Francis and Jim's smoke-filled art studio in her childhood home. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Jim's Room"
  2. "Brad Haunts a Party"
  3. "Our Day Trip"
  4. "Counting Up Your Bones"
  5. "Dumb I Am"
  6. "Why Don't You Stay Home"
  7. "One Old Woman"
  8. "Treehouse Song"
  9. "Lee"
  10. "Settling Song"
  11. "Bird of Cuzco"
  12. "If We Go to the West"

Recording information

Engineered by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r849593/review allmusic
  2. ↑ Nina Nastasia – On Leaving – Review – Stylus Magazine
  3. ↑ "On Leaving | Pitchfork". Archived from the original on October 22, 2006. Retrieved October 11, 2006.
  4. ↑ Nastasia, Nina (November 15, 2023). "Role Models: Nina Nastasia Took More From Her Father Than She Realized". Talkhouse . Retrieved November 25, 2023.


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