Eleanor McEvoy : Snapshots

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Diverse Records hectic release schedule continues, with a further look at the back catalogue of Eleanor McEvoy. “Snapshots” was Eleanor’s third album, from 1999, and has never before been released on vinyl.
A pivotal album in her career, this is the moment when Eleanor moved from a band format to a singular creation and vision of her own music. Says McEvoy “It was getting more than a little frustrating being just a member of a band that happened to carry my name. I felt a need to take charge of my music and create it in the way I wanted it to go.”
Legendary producer Rupert Hine provided the space, momentum and the production role for this most original work. Recorded in a chateau in France and in the amazing “Victorian/Modernist architectural clash” that is Metropolis studios in London, this is her most structural musical endeavour
The album is best known for the YouTube hit “Sophie” , the mini drama “Did You Tell Him?” the pure velvet of “Wrapping Me Up in Luxury”, , the ode to slaughtered Irish journalist Veronica Guerin “Easy to Lose Hope” and the wonderful tongue in cheek country of “Please Heart, You’re Killing Me” (co-written with Rodney Crowell).
Totally re-mastered from the original mix tapes by Ian Cooper, an SACD will be available from June 15th 2009, with the vinyl to follow shortly, after being bizarrely missing from the retail racks for too many years.
This is her only album, on which she does not play violin, (before the overdub sessions she was attacked and her hand was broken whilst walking down the street on the way home from the studio). Luckily, recovery was complete, and the album stands as a unique moment in the history of one of Ireland’s strongest female talents. Snapshots will be a limited edition single 180g vinyl release.