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The first developing artist to be signed to Hear Music,
Hilary McRae is a 21-year-old writer/singer/pianist who
seems to have time traveled to this decade from the 1970s.
Her debut album 'Through These Walls' thrums with the
vibrant rhythms and textures of old-school, horn-drenched,
uptown R&B, a dynamic setting for the timelessly bittersweet
songs and rich, dusky alto of this stunningly accomplished
newcomer.
McRae's vocal instrument is capable of withering intensity
one moment, hushed intimacy the next-a perfect match for
these songs of uncommon candor and humanity-songs could
only have emanated from an old soul. The album also introduces
another remarkably gifted newcomer in producer/guitarist
Zach Ziskin, McRae's longtime musical collaborator. It
was Ziskin who had the crucial idea of enlisting the legendary
Charlie Calello, who has arranged music for legends such
as Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen, to create the
horn parts.
"I've loved horns since I was a kid listening to
Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire," she confirms,
"but I never thought of my own music in that way
until we started making the record. Charlie came up with
stellar horn parts; I was blown away by his ideas and
let him do his thing. I was amazed at how much they added
to the feel of the songs and the overall recording."
At once vibrant and deftly nuanced, the horns serve as
a sort of wordless Greek chorus behind McRae's vocals,
providing a texturally rich counterpoint to her songs
of romantic anguish-laden with missed opportunities, what
ifs and lingering heartache. "I definitely got my
heart stomped on, more than once," she acknowledges.
"That's probably why these songs are so raw."
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