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- ASIN: B00000802E
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- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 12,355 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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when Gertrude Stein met Tricky
13 Dec 1999
Format:Audio CD
I first heard this album about 6 years ago - everyone I knew was raving about it, saying it was the best record since Massive Attack made Blue Lines. Trouble was copies were harder to get hold of than gold dust, for some reason the record company didn't press up many - I guess they just didn't appreciate how good it was. When I finally did snare a CD it was `borrowed' by a friend who promptly moved to NY. So now at last I've found it's been reissued.
The first thing you need to know is that Leslie Winer writes like nobody else. No rhyming dictionary stuff here it's intense, personal and very, very direct. Each track is a miniature autobiography except that there's no light fluffy bits or faux heartaches to be found. Her prose style is hybrid of Anne Sexton and Gertrude Stein - tight economical and contemporary, if only more songwriters would cut out the prosaic ranting and get to the business of communicating life would be far less annoying.
Musically the albums swings between messed up lovers rock, heavy heavy dub Neil Youngesque guitar riffs and the utterly ethereal, but don't expect a normal band feel on this album because its all about sonics and ambience rather than mundane rock & roll. The stand out tracks are the ones that shock you into alertness. N1 Ear will clear a room of any annoying men in one fell swoop, dealing as it does with the sexual stereotyping of women. John says is as sweet tune as anything produced by lovers rock doyennes such as Carole Thompson, whilst Skin is a wonderful poem, half sung, half intoned to sublime effect.
Historically the album has some interesting features as amongst the collaborators are Acclaimed film director John Maybury, the former Mr. Sinead O'Connor (John Reynolds) the masterful Jah Wobble and Culture Club refusnik Helen Terry
In short this album (even 6 years after its release) is still way ahead of its time and should be compulsory listening for all of us who are bored to beyond with the pointless and pitiful sound of so called contemporary rock music disappearing up it's own **** as it pathetically tries to reinvent itself for the upteenth time.
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