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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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 Posted - 08/28/2003 : 13:10:05
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http://www.soundsxp.com/albums/home.html
FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS Show Me Your Tears (Cooking Vinyl)
When Frank Black released two albums simultaneously last year, with a whopping combined 39 tracks on them, you might have thought the follow-up would take a bit longer than normal. Not a bit of it. Contrary as ever, it’s practically impossible to talk about or listen to Frank’s work without casting your mind back to his majestic Pixies back catalogue.
If truth be told of course, it’s utterly pointless to expect him to still be peddling the same sound as those brilliant Bostonians this far down the line, but it takes a small leap of faith to appreciate an East Coast guy recording an album on the West Coast (in LA) that’s rooted in deep South influences. Jaina Blues and The Snake fail to turn their bluesy riffs and boogie piano into anything of great interest but New House Of The Pope and This Old Heartache almost come over like a delta Nick Cave. If they ever film Nick’s novel, And The Ass Saw The Angel, then they might sneak onto the soundtrack.
My Favourite Kiss has a gentle country feel but Horrible Day and Goodbye Lorraine up the ante as jaunty pedal steel and piano driven hoedown stompalongs with optional thigh slapping. Recent single Everything Is New is a glorious Tom Petty-style tune that demands dropping the top down as you cruise along the freeway but whether it works on the M25 is debatable.
As well as having the most Pixies-ish title on the album, Massif Centrale is the closest Frank comes to scaling his former heights. Rollocking guitars and a fluctuating vocal range take you back to somewhere near the glory days but Gigantic it aint. No one could ever accuse him of being a slow, unproductive writer but his quality control meter remains as wonky as it has ever since the masterpiece that was Doolittle. Here comes your middle-aged man.
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2003 : 14:44:07
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Originally posted by Erebus
Gigantic it aint.
oh no!!!!
-Jessie
"deep in ocean blues of absinthe..." |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2003 : 18:12:56
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Pixies Pixies Pixies.... arrrrggggh!
Bacon....... Its not fantastic |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2003 : 23:17:10
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| And, isn't Mr. Black more of West Coast guy than an East Coast guy? |
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Frog in the Sand
-+ Le premiere frog +-
France
2715 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2003 : 04:35:06
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| Keep cool ladies and gentlemen, after all that's just an opinion and nothing more. |
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Omer
= Cult of Ray =
275 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2003 : 10:29:53
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| here comes your middle aged man? how lame is that? |
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Ebb Vicious
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1162 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2003 : 13:46:16
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"gigantic it aint"
well that would make sense since it's a frank black record and not a kim deal record (let alone a pixies record.)
music critics are the most disposable form of life. |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2003 : 18:32:22
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Some people in the music press lower their own credibility by the unresearched shite that they put down on paper.
Bacon....... Its not fantastic |
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