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Dirty Three's adherents--and there are many, and they tend toward the fanatical--have it that the trio's dogged refusal to employ a vocalist is due to the fact that they just don't need one. While there is no arguing that Warren Ellis (violin), Mick Turner (guitar) and Jim White (drums) are virtuosi--Ellis also plays in Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, who are probably the finest ensemble group in the business--Dirty Three's determinedly instrumental repertoire is still apt to sound somewhat formless. What was revolutionary about rock & roll from the outset was that the instruments were there to serve the song. When the instruments are only there to serve the instrumentalists, the danger is towards aimlessness or, worse, self indulgence. Dirty Three are too clever for that, mostly, and there are some undeniably pretty moments here--"I Really Should've Gone Out Last Night" and "Some Things I Just Don't Want To Know" are as eloquently rueful as their titles. Mostly, however, Whatever You Love, You Are sounds, as Dirty Three's records tend to, like a work in progress. --Andrew Mueller
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Innovative 2000 album that offered up a more studio-oriented approach! Includes "Some Summers They Drop Like Flies".
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about the music of The Dirty Three that moves me so much. I think it is some of the most 'human' sounding music I have ever come across. The way the violin, guitar and drums interact is so expressive, so in line with the rising and falling of human emotion that one cannot help but be taken by it. The rhythms and melodies tug and release, sway and swoon in a way that mirrors life and all that comes with it. The songs act as a reflection for your own feelings, and through listening to them one gains far more perspective over one's own circumstance. When you feel sad and despondent the music reveals your emotions like a crystalline image in lake. When you feel happy the wordless tunes sing with you in celebration, triumphant at this new found peace.
Listening to "Whatever you love, you are" is akin to being wrapped in a bed of hay underneath a glinting moon, with the stars looking over and protecting you as you sleep. It is comforting, joyful, and above all achingly beautiful.
You really should own this record.
14 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Never mind the stultistic 'instrumental rock' tag; the Dirty Three are as serious as Rimbaud, Ecclesiastes or Arvo Part. They smirk at modern consumer culture and behave instead like middle-class art gypsies; melancholy violin tears strips of emotional fabric from sheets of crashing guitars and drums. (Morrisian or cot? Stretch metaphor matador scratch.) Remember that we have a whole new millennium to claim for ourselves; our own 20's, 30's, 60's if we take the pills. The Dirty Three are the organic extension of all mankind's pre-20th century artistic endevour; they, and their peers (Cicala Muta, &c.) are sowing the seeds of the next thousand Gregorian years. Awaken!
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