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seanunyon
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 Posted - 11/01/2002 : 06:13:35
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Ottawa Sun
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/oct31_black-sun.html
Ottawa Xpress
http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/magazine/index.asp?id=654&parution=943
Hour, Montreal
http://www.hour.ca/magazine/index.asp?id=1931&parution=1043
Voir, Montreal
http://www.voir.ca/montreal/musique/musique.asp?Id=23486
and, album review from Now Magazine, Toronto
FRANK BLACK
BLACK LETTER DAYS
(SONIC UNYON)
Rating: NNNN (out of NNNNN)
College rock's shadowy sweetheart, Frank Black, returns with an exhaustive double-album assault of songs. Devil's Workshop bears the most obvious hallmarks of the Pixies mainman, who had countless post-punk hipsters bobbing their heads to Here Comes Your Man. Although Black maintains his flair for the lyrically cryptic, the songs are mostly straightforward and
fairly innocuous upbeat guitar-driven pop. Black Letter Days is the more interesting album, a measured and varied twang-infused road-trip diary framed by two great takes on Tom Waits's The Black Rider. Weirdly enough, the cabaret swing of the opening track recalls the Muppet Show theme song,
and Black tempers his trademark snarl on the second version, tossing off a muttered William Shatner-like monologue over an organ-backed shuffle. Pedal steel figures prominently, as do wistful, solipsistic lyrical musings, but Black Letter Days has its bubbly moments as well -- 21 Reasons could be an
early-90s Lowest of the Low hit. Frank Black & the Catholics make a stand at the Horseshoe Tuesday through Saturday (October 29 to November 2).
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Edited by - El Barto on 03/23/2003 22:39:41 |
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