Artist: LUMINEERSGenre: Popular MusicProduct Type: Compact DiscRelease Date: 8-APR-2016Returns Accepted?: YesProduct DescriptionNOTE: Item is an 11 track release. The bonus tracks are digital only.
It took four years for The Lumineers to follow up their platinum-plus multi-Grammy-nominated self-titled debut which spent 46 weeks on the Billboard 200 and peaked at #2 -- but Cleopatra is well worth the wait. After exploding onto the scene with their monster single Ho Hey (which spent a staggering 62 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #3) and its follow-up Stubborn Love (recently featured on President Barack Obamas Spotify playlist) The Lumineers spent a solid three years touring six of the seven continents. During that time The Lumineers whose original members Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites founded the band in Ramsey New Jersey back in 2002 -- earned a pair of Grammy nominations (Best New Artist Best Americana Album) contributed two songs to The Hunger Games franchise (including the hit Jennifer Lawrence/James Newton Howard collaboration The Hanging Tree) and sold an impressive 1.7 million albums in the U.S. and 3 million worldwide. Cleopatra proves Schultz and Fraites along with cellist/vocalist Neyla Pekarek are neither taking their good fortune for granted?? nor sitting back on their laurels. With the help of producer Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers?? The Avett Brothers)?? the man Wesley calls ??our shaman???? the band ensconced themselves in Clubhouse?? a recording studio high atop a hill in rural Rhinebeck?? N.Y.?? not far from Woodstock. The Lumineers then set about trying to make musical sense of their three-year-plus roller coaster ride. Their skill at setting a visual story to music comes through amidst the del