- Audio CD (30 Oct 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Clearwater
- ASIN: B000050HIB
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 492,018 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Put Away The Sharp Knives |
| 2. Blue Heart |
| 3. Skin |
| 4. Running On Empty |
| 5. Dr Love |
| 6. Breeder |
| 7. Slidedown |
| 8. Poor Creature |
| 9. Dreamtime |
| 10. Skydiving |
| 11. Mindwalking |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
As Blur's mighty, stripped-to-the-bone opus 13 proved, production as much as song writing can be the difference between light entertainment and music that touches nerves. And while Hazel Winter's debut is a deft collection of jarring melodies and poetic words, it's the home-made delivery that allows Put Away The Sharp Knives to savage the senses. For once, lo-fi isn't a stylistic buzzword, but an inadequate hint to the title track's erratic drums and the lumbering, passion-over-ability, country guitar of "Breeder". That Winter's emotionally wrought laments and dysfunctional tunes are touched with the same heart-pounding delicacy as PJ Harvey is a credit to her tender and breathless vocals. That her mutilated tunes and desperate lines like "Dialing 999 I feel my face drain / the operator knows me by my first name" ("Dream Time") come with a shudder, has as much to do with sounding like they were recorded in a dimly lit basement on decrepit equipment in one unrehearsed outburst, as it does the whispered words themselves. --Dan Gennoe
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
F'n Brilliant!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Put Away the Sharp Knives (Audio CD)
Incredibly talented guitar player, visionary vocalist, and haunting lyricist... I'm certain that Hazel will not suit the tastes of mainstream audiences, but I am so thankful that I discovered her music because it moves me as music should.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
simply brilliant,
By A Customer
This review is from: Put Away the Sharp Knives (Audio CD)
How to describe this musical journey? - dissonent, laboured, visceral, joyful darkness. All the usual inadequate ways we have of trying to define music fall short of this raw and bloody musical masterpiece. Listening to the album you can imagine that Hazel has used it as a catharsis, airing her soul for an outpouring of primal release. Not that the songs are not tuneful, because they are in a catchy sometimes jaunty way which belies the subject matter.pure brilliance
5.0 out of 5 stars
CSI: Bristol,
By Arachne Jones (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Put Away the Sharp Knives (Audio CD)
I'm currently revisiting Bristol-based Hazel Winter's back catalogue after the recent release of her glorious Situation Normal Then album. Sharp Knives is right because this is a collection of lyrically brilliant songs right on the bloody edge. Tightly-produced high angst guitar rock suffused with dark, visceral humour. A taste well worth acquiring.
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