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| Carl |
Posted - 05/04/2007 : 17:14:10
http://www.musicomh.com/singles/black-francis_0407.htm
Black Francis - Threshold Apprehension (Cooking Vinyl)
UK release date: 7 May 2007
After resurrecting his old band The Pixies for a
lap around the festivals, lead singer Black
Francis is back with a new single from his
forthcoming Bluefinger album, initially being
released as a download, with a physical single
following in three weeks.
The single and album titles come from the drug-
influenced work of Dutch artist Herman Brood who
committed suicide a few years ago, but according
to Black "My song Threshold Apprehension has
nothing to do with the painting except that it [...]
has everything to do with my impressions of
Herman Brood." Glad we sorted that one out.
The lyrics can be seen as a terse snapshot of
Brood's drug-addled life: "I will be the whore/and
you'll be my suicide." The song is a return to old
form and will doubtless please his fans, with its
brutal, basic guitar and wild vocal. There's nothing
new here, nothing to surprise, but it certainly does
the business. If you like Pixies and his early solo
work, Threshold Apprehension is going to please.
- Fiona Jerome
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| Czar |
Posted - 05/11/2007 : 03:58:44
"Trademark fuckwail abandon"? ahahahah I need to learn to master superlatives like this. |
| Carl |
Posted - 05/10/2007 : 17:31:15
http://www.nme.com/reviews/black-francis/8513
Black Francis
Threshold Apprehension
After the Pixies, the guy who trademarked soft-loud
songwriting changed his name from Black Francis to
Frank Black and began ploughing the lonely acoustic
furrow of the soft-soft. Well, hold on to your universe,
because Frank Black is dead. Black Francis is
back, and this time, he's gunning for the loud-loud,
having regained all that trademark fuckwail abandon
of old. He's slicing up eyeballs. He'd like you to
know. |
| Czar |
Posted - 05/08/2007 : 06:34:51
Not at all! Makes sense. |
| Carl |
Posted - 05/08/2007 : 06:26:24
Hey Czar, hope you don't mind if I pop the review you posted in the other thread here:
http://www.thedownloader.co.uk/release.php?id=3169
Black Francis - Threshold Apprehension
Black Francis as we know is a legend, but as we’ve
seen on countless occasions in recent decade’s
legendary status generally equates to god-awful
quality control.
Thankfully Sir Black Francis is a different kind of
entity to his relentlessly disappointing peers and
thus ‘Threshold Apprehension’ stands as a brilliant
shock of fire-brand indie rock that adds rather than
dilutes to Frank Black’s impenetrable heritage.
With the presence of some glorious ‘woo-woos’ and
Back Francis’ gnashing drawl working overtime what
you’re left with is a single of pure perfection that
should by rights be hooked up to the pipe-cleaner
arms of fledgling rock bands via a throbbing great
intravenous drip to give them just some idea of
what being a legendary rock frontman really entails.
For further details on the download availability of
‘Threshold Apprehension’ click here.
Josh Timber
Little review on this blog:
http://drakelelane.blogspot.com/2007/05/now-downloading-new-releases-050807.html
"He's using the Black Francis moniker here as the songs were written (and didn't make) the new Pixies album still in the works."
That may in fact be the case, but I don't believe FB has ever stated it. |
| Czar |
Posted - 05/07/2007 : 19:22:49
They don't want to hurt you! |
| remig |
Posted - 05/06/2007 : 01:53:01
Why don't they just simmer down?
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| kotvana |
Posted - 05/05/2007 : 23:02:10
why do they hate him |
