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| french fry 101 |
Posted - 11/29/2004 : 21:44:03
Joey Santiago plays guitars on a new album by Charles Douglas called "Statecraft."
Sounds like Pixies + Lou Reed. Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+ last week.
Might be worth checking out for those of you who love Joey's playing. |
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| charlesdouglas |
Posted - 01/19/2005 : 11:33:50
There's also a review in the current issue of Magnet, and one in the upcoming issue of Mojo (with Sid Vicious on the cover). And thanks for the kind words, Madtempest! |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 01/05/2005 : 18:41:47
ok I really have to get this. Thanks for the second review! |
| matthew |
Posted - 01/05/2005 : 13:56:58
Allmusic.com gave it 4.5 stars! Well done!
"Coming a full five years after his last solo album, 1999's Moe Tucker-produced The Lives of Charles Douglas, Statecraft is a much more polished and self-assured affair. "Polished" might not be the precise word, since the album was produced by lower Manhattan's master of guitar skronk Wharton Tiers and features the Pixies' Joey Santiago as lead guitarist, and between them, the two add a few layers of grit and spiky textures to Douglas' basically sunny indie pop. The results sound rather like a cross between Jonathan Richman's wide-eyed faux-naif persona (Douglas has a well-documented history of mental instability, but his lyrics are much closer to Richman's mixture of ingenuous simplicity and wry humor than the more disturbingly unhinged likes of Daniel Johnston or Wesley Willis) and the post-punk clatter of prime early-to-mid-'80s Fall, when Mark E. Smith's disjointed hectoring was held in check by Brix Smith and/or Marc Riley's pop smarts. Highlights include "Chan," a giddy, tongue-in-cheek love song to the lady better known as Cat Power, the quirky "Splitting the Atom" (an exercise in neo-post-punk dance rock along the lines of Franz Ferdinand), and the punky, Pixies-ish opener, "Free at Last." Statecraft is Douglas' best album yet, a tremendous step forward from his more tentative and uneven early releases."
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| madtempest |
Posted - 12/27/2004 : 12:29:48
Hey I have been listening to Statecraft quite a bit, and I am REALLY enjoying it! Definitely worth a listen. |
| charlesdouglas |
Posted - 12/24/2004 : 22:06:04
Thank you French Fry 101! Do I know you? But yes, this is a cool site so I'm flattered my album got mentioned here. If you're so inclined, you can sample it at www.audiolunchbox.com
And Cult_Of_Frank, I am indeed THE Charles Douglas (though unfortunately, that and 25 cents will get me a candy cane.... mmm, I forgot! Candy canes are tasty!)
Merry Xmas! |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 14:27:00
cool! thank you french fry! |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 12/20/2004 : 21:43:59
Thanks for the heads up ff101. Charles, are you THE Mr. Douglas or just a fan?
 "Join the Cult of Frank 2.0 / And you'll be enlightened (free for 1.x members)" |
| charlesdouglas |
Posted - 12/20/2004 : 21:28:20
Joey plays on about half the album. |
| number 13 |
Posted - 12/01/2004 : 13:32:51
Does he play on a lot of tracks orjust a little? |
| frank black conspiracy |
Posted - 11/30/2004 : 05:07:01
I will take a gander. thankyou french fry. |
