All of Our Names
All of Our Names is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer, released in 2004. It peaked at number 6 on the Top Canadian Albums chart and number 43 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. "Almost" b/w "Pendulums" was released as a single with "Almost" reaching the top 20 on Canadian pop charts. The track "Silver Road", included on the soundtrack for the film Men with Brooms had been previously released as a single in 2003.
History
The album was recorded using Digital Performer at Harmer's home. Drums and bass and guitars were recorded together using different rooms and the rest of the album was multi-tracked individually.
Guest musicians on the album include Howie Beck, Gavin Brown, Jim Bryson and Ian Thornley. Harmer plays a number of instruments on the album, including guitar, bass, and drums.
It was released in the U.S. on Zoë Records.
Reception
Music critic Johnny Lofthus, writing for Allmusic, praised the album, calling it "homey and gorgeous" and calling Harmer's voice "starkly beautiful." "There's fully formed adult alternative stuff here, from the robust head-nod lilt of 'Almost' to 'New Enemy's more stately melody... This immediacy helps sell All of Our Names, since music like this can be smothered by over-production."Rolling Stone gave the album 3 of 5 stars, stating it is "suffused with a peaceful fatalism, a mood that's as casually downbeat as Harmer's overcast voice itself."
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by Sarah Harmer
All of Our Names
by: Sarah HarmerWhen you find yourself a new enemy
can you take me down off the hook
that you've been hanging me
he said with almost all the love gone
And will the time soon come when you see fit
the light will change will you just look at it and stare
and wonder as the traffic moves why your still sitting there
All eyes are waiting for it(all eyes are waiting)
the moon is at your back and in the glow
without even having (without even having) to know what you know
We're waving our white flags
we're hanging our heads out the high windows
(All eyes are waiting) Just to see you make your way
To the starting gate, And go.
Or maybe you could find away to be nice
see me coming up in a line and let a smile seep out
he swears that would be, all it would be about
He said just a peace to settle over us
No more words, no more making it up
No victory
No up and leave
All eyes are waiting for it(all eyes are waiting)
the moon is at your back and in the glow
without even having (without even having) to know what you know
We're waving our white flags
we're hanging our heads out the high windows
(All eyes are waiting) Just to see you make your way
To the starting gate, And go.
Your seven numbers away
From never having to say, anything more
Cause when you find yourself a new enemy
Can you take me down off the hook
that you've been hanging me on
He said with almost all the love gone.