℗ 2021 Nonesuch Records Inc.
| Released | April 7, 2021 |
| Duration | 40m 41s |
| Record Label | Nonesuch |
| Genre | Singer/Songwriter |
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1.1
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Laysong
Chris Thile |
4:50 | |||
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1.2
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Ecclesiastes
Chris Thile |
4:14 | |||
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1.3
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God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot
Chris Thile |
4:59 | |||
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1.4
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Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 1
Chris Thile |
3:26 | |||
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1.5
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Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 2
Chris Thile |
4:42 | |||
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1.6
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Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 3
Chris Thile |
4:50 | |||
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Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117
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1.7
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IV. Presto
Chris Thile |
4:45 | |||
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1.8
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Dionysus
Chris Thile |
4:48 | |||
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1.9
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Won't You Come and Sing for Me
Chris Thile |
4:07 | |||
"As always, Thile's playing is an unpredictable delight, ranging from furious strumming to pointillistic fusillades, and at times his eight-string rings like a church bell."
- ABC News
Chris Thile’s Laysongs is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs’ features the three-part “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters; a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a selection from Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot” based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; and a Hazel Dickens cover.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Nonesuch Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.15 -0.15 to -0.15 | -20.10 -23.99 to -17.20 | -16.27 -20.00 to -12.70 | 12 9 to 16 | |
| 1 | Laysong | -0.15 | -18.20 | -15.0 | 11 |
| 2 | Ecclesiastes | -0.15 | -22.84 | -18.9 | 15 |
| 3 | God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot | -0.15 | -17.73 | -13.6 | 10 |
| 4 | Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 1 | -0.15 | -17.63 | -13.6 | 10 |
| 5 | Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 2 | -0.15 | -23.99 | -20.0 | 16 |
| 6 | Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 3 | -0.15 | -17.20 | -12.7 | 9 |
| 7 | IV. Presto | -0.15 | -22.37 | -18.8 | 15 |
| 8 | Dionysus | -0.15 | -17.32 | -13.9 | 10 |
| 9 | Won't You Come and Sing for Me | -0.15 | -23.64 | -19.9 | 14 |