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Track Listings
| 1. Blemish |
| 2. The Good Son |
| 3. The Only Daughter |
| 4. The Heart Knows Better |
| 5. She Is Not |
| 6. Late Night Shopping |
| 7. How Little We Need to Be Happy |
| 8. A Fire in the Forest |
Blemish is ex-Japan frontman David Sylvian's long-awaited follow-up to 1999's Dead Bees on a Cake. That album was, in part at least, a celebration of his love for wife Ingrid Chavez and couched in suitably blissful and luxuriant jazz/ambient tones. Blemish, by contrast, is a fraught, wracked and occasionally embittered affair, a more difficult though equally rewarding listening experience. The opening title track, for example, is a lengthy and anguished excursion, its lyrical theme of estrangement set to a broody, quivering guitar chord and punctuated by moments of musical violence.
There are three bold collaborations with veteran British improv guitarist Derek Bailey, whose spare, atonal haiku tones will present a challenge to those who turn to Sylvian for comfort listening. The scratchy, CD-skipping effects of "The Only Daughter" are also calculated to disconcert the listener, while "Late Night Shopping" is shot through with disquieting intentions and laced with sinister strains of avant-garde noise. This, however, is a brave album and in its own way as beautiful as its predecessor in its starkness. --David Stubbs
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