|
Ten Percenter
- FB Enquirer -
United Kingdom
1733 Posts |
 Posted - 08/11/2003 : 02:51:35
|
From Crud, a three star review:
http://www.2-4-7-music.com/reviews/reviewsearch/long.asp?
Frank Black limbers up for the release of new 'Catholics' album 'Show Me Your Tears' due for release on 8th September on Cooking Vinyl. Including two previously unreleased tracks – cover versions of Reid Paley’s "Take What You Want" and The Rolling Stones "Down In The Hole" - the single is full of the same tinkling saloon bar pianos and country messages that made 'Black Letter Days' so black.
Who knows, what with the election of the first openly gay Anglican Bishop, the Catholics could well become fashionable again.
Available now as part of a limited edition (600 copies) release.
Another review, from Atomic Duster:
Frank Black and the Catholics - Everything Is New (Cooking Vinyl)
Yes, yes I know I get overexcited whenever the man himself returns and now is no exception...
T: You may be expecting me to mark this as a ten just on the strength of the name (as you do with the name Ride), but, although i think this is a great single where in the main the lyric is extremely strong, the fact remains that he rhymes "Everything is new" with "when the sky is blue" and that line kind of makes me cringe. Otherwise it's as good a single as I've come to expect from this legend.
N: Lyrically this reminds me so much of early Springsteen, you know. I'm not saying this is bad - far from it - or that Frank should grow his hair long and cast his eyes downwards in search of those effects pedals. It's ok, but not the Pixies (fairly obvious I would think).
T: But I wouldn't WANT it to be like the Pixies. i mean it's a different band altogether and if it HAD sounded like them it would have shown a lack of imagination. Frank Black and the Catholics are a great band in their own right.
N: Well that's what I was saying... 7/10
No man is an island, unless he is in the bath |
Edited by - Ten Percenter on 08/11/2003 02:58:45 |
|
Topic Locked
