Three years after she began to appear on the public’s radar with her self-titled debut EP and full-length album ‘Happenstance’, Rachael Yamagata will release A Record in Two Parts: Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart through Warner Bros. Records on October 7, 2008.

“I didn’t set out to make a two part album,” Yamagata says. “We just followed the songs’ lyrical lead and built them up with textures and sounds that served the story. The beautiful ones were darker and worked with lush arrangements. We used the sounds of rain, tree branches falling on the roof — whatever kept the mood true to this haunted studio in the first stormy days of spring. The second part became more anthemic, like a reclaiming of personal power. There’s something raw about it. To me it sounds weathered, but not broken or cynical.”

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Taken together, the two halves present a complete timeline of the emotions that revolve around complicated relationships and the accompanying fallout. “Elephants is much more intimate,” Yamagata says. “It’s about being willing to take a risk even if it’s not going to end up well. Teeth is like rediscovering your backbone after you’ve gone through the loss.

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Listen to “Elephants” from ‘Elephants’

ELEPHANTS - TRACK LISTING

1) Elephants
2) What If I Leave
3) Little Life
4) Sunday Afternoon
5) Elephants Instrumental
6) Duet
7) Over and Over
(8) Brown Eyes
9) Horizon

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Listen to “Sidedish Friend” From ‘Teeth Sinking Into Heart’

TEETH SINKING INTO HEART - TRACK LISTING

1) Sidedish Friend
2) Accident
3) Faster
4) Pause The Tragic Ending
5) Don’t

Rachael Yamagata 2008 tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

September 20 - Asbury Park, NJ - The Wonder Bar
September 21 - Pittsburgh, PA - Diesel
September 22 - Washington DC - Birchmere
September 24 - Philadelphia - Johnny Brenda’s
September 25 - New York, NY - Joe’s Pub (two shows that night) – SOLD OUT
September 29 - Boston, MA - Café 939 @ Berklee College of Music
October 1 - Chicago, IL - Lakeshore
October 2 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line
October 4 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
October 5 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
October 6 - San Francisco, CA - Café Du Nord
October 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Largo at the Coronet

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