Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 28th, 2007
We’ll Never Turn Back is a Mississippi blues gospel CD, full of faith and strength. It is a great reminder of the work of the civil rights movement and the work that still is need to be done.
This is a fantastic set of songs with a great ability of visual story telling thru music. Simple songs with messages that are graced with the help of Ry Cooder on guitar and producer.
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
I think one of the hardest things about writing about music is finding a complete CD that you can make a fair comment on. The new / reissue Jenny Owen Youngs CD “Batten the Hatches” leaves me in the flux of trying to find a balance of very bad and really create music.
In the middle of this CD there are three very nice creative tracks (Voice on tape, P.S., Bricks) these tracks at times sound like Joni Mitchell with lyric writing that could take twist like Robyn Hitchcock. They are three very enjoyable folk pop tunes that I am happy to have in my collection.
But regretfully, the rest of the tracks seem deep in the youthful disfunction angst of relationships gone south and the desire to try to create some sort of shock, slim. That just turns the CD into a lost set of pop tunes that fall short.
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
The Clientele has always had a great talent of creating pop music that sounds as if it came from another time period. I have made comparisons to the songs on there latest CD “God Save the Clientele” as something that sounds like a lost Monkeys / Davy Jones and the Zombies.
I have to say that I have not enjoyed this recording as much as I enjoyed there 2005 recording “Strange Geometry”. That being said it still makes good background music in the kitchen that will not horrify the kids or guests.
But some sap on the floor might be expected.
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