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It's been four years since Red House Painters' Songs For A Blue Guitar was released, with its near-legendary guitar solo on "More Like Paper" (allegedly the reason behind the Painters' parting of ways with their label, 4AD). Since then, legal difficulties have prevented the release of its follow-up, Old Ramon. Fans, therefore, must content themselves with this haunting, acoustic solo record from singer Kozelek in the interim. It's as solemn, slow-paced and simmering as one would expect from the man who invented "slowcore", but nowhere near as meandering as his main group could sometimes be. Songs like "Around And Around" and the poignant elegy "Rose Marie" have a Denver-esque quality to them, while Kozelek's cover of AC/DC's youth anthem "Rock'N'Roll Singer" is almost unrecognisable. It's amazing what a little minimalism will do. --Everett True
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Well lets get one thing straight Mark coud sing the Birdie song and i would buy it.After four years of waiting for some new songs(other than the four tracks on the Shanti project collection and a couple of old demos on Retrospective)I can breathe again. The reverb is their,the emotion is their,the shivers down your spine are their(always a good sign)all the thing that make RHP/Mark what they are. Cover versions me....never.Ive never been a fan of such efforts,but Mr Kozelek strips them back to the bare bones,builds them up till they are unrecognisable,and usually succeeds in making them better songs. Like old buddys we have been through it all. break ups-births-deaths-travels. Red house painters/Mark kozelek you are the soundtrack to my life.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Along with "What's Next To The Moon," this album represents Kozelek's work as solo artist, after the demise of the wonderful Red House Painters period.
For those people particularly in love with RHP's sound, this may be require a bit of an adjustment. This is a quiet outing, intimate and almost withdrawn. This, by itself, should not be a big surprise since RHP, even when they rocked, maintained a thoughful and melancholy tone.
Once you accept that there's plenty to welcome, as much in his own compositions as in the chosen covers. To start with the latter, I must say that Denver's tune, "Around And Around" is probably the best non-Kozelek song in this album. The AC-DC versions are good but better covers can be found in his other aforementioned solo album.
Now, when it comes to the self-penned material, "Find Me, Ruben Olivares" is as good as your favorite RHP stuff, and "Ruth Marie" may be one of the most gorgeous folk songs written by anyone in a long, long time.
Whereas most solo spin-offs after great bands disband, often, tend to lose the luster of the previous material, Kozelek manages to maintain the quality you may already be accustomed to, and will satisfy anyone without the obligation of being a faithful completist.
For those people particularly in love with RHP's sound, this may be require a bit of an adjustment. This is a quiet outing, intimate and almost withdrawn. This, by itself, should not be a big surprise since RHP, even when they rocked, maintained a thoughful and melancholy tone.
Once you accept that there's plenty to welcome, as much in his own compositions as in the chosen covers. To start with the latter, I must say that Denver's tune, "Around And Around" is probably the best non-Kozelek song in this album. The AC-DC versions are good but better covers can be found in his other aforementioned solo album.
Now, when it comes to the self-penned material, "Find Me, Ruben Olivares" is as good as your favorite RHP stuff, and "Ruth Marie" may be one of the most gorgeous folk songs written by anyone in a long, long time.
Whereas most solo spin-offs after great bands disband, often, tend to lose the luster of the previous material, Kozelek manages to maintain the quality you may already be accustomed to, and will satisfy anyone without the obligation of being a faithful completist.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent record by Mr Kozelek/RHP! It has 7 very strong tracks, the only slightly weaker one is track nr 1. Most of the old RHP albums are not very consistent, with 5 stars and 1 star songs mixed on the albums. The RHP album I recommend is Songs for a blue guitar. I didn't really like it at first (prefering the rollercoaster (1st song Grace Cathedral Park) album) but it has really grown. The only sad thing about the new album is that it is only 27 minutes long I think. But better 27 great minutes than 75 minutes with 50 minutes of junk. I'll be buying the next one too!
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