"A beautiful debut album, steeped in a slow, mystical atmosphere." -Leo Kattestaart, Alt Country NL 8/2006
"Painterly washes of darkling country torch, phials of pale blue sound. Pedal steel and ringing piano echo through the empty rooms of this deserted house. A battered guitar lies on the cold bed. A familiar, lonely street during an autumn night, your words trapped and suspended in the clear, chilled air of winter. A voice that can trill like Stevie Nicks or Tim Buckley but is weighed down by sorrows and wisdom, heavy like Townes Van Zandt or Mike Johnson. Watch The Light Fade is reminiscent of the epic, biblical sweep and tear-stained sheets of Nocturama-era Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and is, thusly, indispensable." -Matthew Moyer, Ink19
"These are ballads of erotic dreams and faithful devotions challenged, sung by a woman with the steady confidence of a C&W-raised female Sinatra." - Chris Estey for Three Imaginary Girls
"Pity the fool who’d think of murdering Vivian Linden: with a voice like hers, she’s bound to come back as a ghost and haunt you. Linden’s instrument is reminiscent of Cat Power, Hope Sandoval, and Margo Timmons (of Cowboy Junkies), equal parts cracked and crystalline, gravel and gold dust, the kind you’d expect to hear drifting across the desert at sunset. Judging by the title of her debut album, “Watch the Light Fade,” and the dead flowers decorating its cover, Linden is fully aware of her gift, and employs to exquisite effect. " -Emil, Plug-In-Music 11/2006
Vivian Linden's debut release "Watch the Light Fade", a brooding, country-tinged homage to love, lust, lonesomeness and loss was released by Tarnished Records in late 2006. In the U.S., the album can be ordered from our distributor's Saki Store. In Europe you can order it from Fandango or from CD Baby. It's also available on
iTunes and eMusic
The cast of characters who play on the record include Vivian's husband, guitarist Michael McNaughton, as well as members of many other great Seattle bands: Legendary jazz organist Wayne Horvitz, Bill Herzog, Jon Hyde, Eric Eagle, Charlie Smith, and others. Watch the Light Fade was produced by Beck Henderer-Pena of Conduit Records.
Vivian also appears on San Francisco troubadour Jeffrey Luck Lucas' new album What We Whisper a darkly moving, cinematic record produced by Desmond Shea.
