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Before Gomez got a taste for tequila and campfire blues there was the Alabama 3. Led by Reverend Dr D. Wayne Love, aided by the gospel choir of The First Presleyterian Church Of Elvis The Divine and the bleeps and beats that they call "sweet, country, acid-house music", their debut album, Exile On Coldharbour Lane, was both ingenious and intentionally comical. For the follow-up, La Peste, the humorous caricatures have been toned down--Dr Love is now just Rob Spragg--and the blend of hobo folk and electro eccentricity has been refined to the point of perfection. Spragg still does an amazing impersonation of a fallen preacherman looking for redemption with his Southern States drawl (although he's actually from Brixton, South London) and the bible-bashing parables of "Too Sick To Pray" and "Wade Into The Water"--coming across more disturbed than his previous slapstick incarnation. Even the hobo-house cover of The Eagles' "Hotel California" rates as inspired. La Peste is brilliant, beat-fuelled, Jack-Daniels-drenched hillbilly techno. --Dan Gennoe
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
For Rock, Dance & Parties!,
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This review is from: La Peste (Audio CD)
This album will stand the test of time as a hugely enjoyable collection of anthemic songs that worm their way into your head, even after the first listening. They got into mine and haven't left after far too many album plays for my own good.Whilst missing some of the superb insanity-feel of the debut album "Exile on Coldharbour Lane", this album is more mainstream in its appeal with future classics such as "Wade Into The Water". This is the leader amongst song giants such as "Mansion On The Hill" and "Sad-Eyed Lady". It is not often you can buy follow-up albums as good, if not better, than a brilliant debut. If you ever get the chance to see these intelligent nutters live - take the opportunity because you'll never forget it. The first album had dark humour with foot-stomping rhythms and you need to get the joke for a truly great listen. This album has great music, foot-stomping rhythms and you need to get the album for another truly great listen.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great album in its own right...,
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This review is from: La Peste (Audio CD)
I had heard that this was the poorer of the two Alabama 3 albums, so deliberately listened to this one first. I was not disappointed, and the style throughout is a country-acid-house-gospel one, with some abstract tracks and a level of originality that you don't normally find in one genre. They may have created their own style of music, and fine tuned it since Exile..., but now it seems that they are sticking to it. I like this album a lot, with some quality tracks like 'Too Sick to Pray' and a trippy remix of 'Hotel California', along with a number of other grand tracks, and on its own I would almost be tempted to rate it 5. However, it is a little bit repetitive in style, and a few of the tracks sound a little similar [not really a bad thing...]. The real downer was when I heard Exile On Coldharbour Lane. It was only after to listening to that a lot that I realised how this was not quite so brilliant as the debut. My gripe with the lack of variety on this album is so contradictory to the first album, and it's really only the slight restraints on the imagination and the lack of appearances of such characters as IV Lenin that stop this album from being quite up to scratch. It almost seems that A3 searched for a style in Exile, with some diverse results, but after finding it they did stick to it...and the result is great, but no longer quite so revolutionary.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Deep, Dark and Dirty,
This review is from: La Peste (Audio CD)
Ok, so there are plenty of reviews for this record and I agree with most of them. Just thought I'd add that this band are like a darker version of Gomez with more beats. (More accurately Gomez are a lighter version Alabama 3 as these were here first.) If Gomez were reformed Junkies who had grown up in the backsteets of Glasgow rather than reformed middle class metal heads, their records would probably sound like this. Anyway, I'd recommend this to any Gomez fan who also likes darker records like Radiohead's OK Computer or Massive Attack's Mezzanine. The other thing is that though I agree that Too Sick to Pray, Mansion on the Hill, Wade into the Water etc. are fantastic tracks, everyone has ignored Sinking... which is a haunting, epic of a song. Dark and moody and exceedingly beautiful at first it morphs into a jubulant gospel choir chant of "It's gonna be alright". Very uplifting and certainly a contender for best track of the album. Anyone agree?
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