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Ten Percenter
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 09/03/2003 : 03:56:07
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Another very positive review - it is posted anonymously (perhaps by Dave Noisy?)
Recorded almost entirely live on just two tracks by Stan Ridgeway and Nick Vincent, the follow-up to 2002's simultaneous releases Black Letter Days and Devil's Workshop again features fellow Frank's former Pixies, Joey Santiago along with Eric Drew Feldman and composer Van Dyke Parks. As cryptic as ever Black Francis reckons the album was influenced, in a roundabout way, by recent therapy sessions. "I've been going to therapy," says Frank. "The doctor said "I'm not interested in your damn brain; you got a big broken heart? Big deal. I'm not interested in your heart, SHOW ME YOUR TEARS!"
Okay so that's the title sorted and to be perfectly honest there isn't a happy song in this bunch, but let's face it, Francis fans like it best that way. The lustful and downright lascivious Nadine opens the set, coming on like doo wop performed by a school choir, before effortlessly morphing into one of Frank's most beautiful songs for quite some time, the piano driven Everything Is New. My Favourite Kiss may sound like Sultans Of Swing as its delicate and articulate axe bends in unison, but Knoppfler could never have written a line like, "Just when her mouth is warm," if he were talking about sweatbands, then maybe.
The immediacy of the recording process has definitely brought out the best in Frank who lets his the narrative of his songs, with their various deferent vocal flavas do the talking; particularly the grimy but life affirming Massif Centrale whose schizophrenic voices are surpassed by an even more surprising collection of chord changes.
His best work as a solo artist, bar none.
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