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CD Reviews from Rolling
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06/22/2009 12:30 PM
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Moby - Wait for Me
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Artist:
Moby
Review:
For a guy who made his name driving party people to ecstasy,
Moby has always had a thing for the blues. His unlikely 1999
megahit, Play, used them literally, grafting ancient
samples into inviting electronic grooves. His latest uses them
spiritually, giving his melancholy streak room to brood and
blossom. Instrumentals like "Shot in the Back of the Head" (Google
the haunting video, directed by David Lynch) billow moodily, lush
arrangements glowing with Eno-style analog-synth warmth. Never
the...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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06/22/2009 12:26 PM
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Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
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Artist:
Levon Helm
Review:
The Dead's "Tennessee Jed" is an inspired kickoff to Levon
Helm's first proper rock & roll record in a dog's age. His 2007
comeback from throat cancer, Dirt Farmer, was mainly an
acoustic affair. Electric Dirt — recorded with Larry
Campbell and the rest of the band from Helm's Midnight Ramble gigs
at his Woodstock, New York, home — wants to party: Helm
struts his slippery shell-game groove on "Jed" and works it deftly
throughout. But he digs deepest here with his voice, which
veers...
Rating:
4 Stars
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06/22/2009 12:24 PM
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Wilco - Wilco
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Artist:
Wilco
Review:
Wilco's seventh studio album is a triumph of determined
simplicity by a band that has been running from the obvious for
most of this decade. The title is the giveaway. So is the opening
gag, "Wilco (The Song)," with its rattling-bones guitar and
singer-boss Jeff Tweedy's assurance, sung like pillow talk, that
his combo is good for all that ails you: "Do you dabble in
depression?/Is someone twisting a knife in your back?...Wilco will
love you, baby." At times, Wilco (The Album) sounds like
the...
Rating:
4 Stars
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06/22/2009 12:21 PM
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Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
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Artist:
Rob Thomas
Review:
Rob Thomas will never, ever be cool. Thomas has been the
large-lunged, chest-thumping voice of straight-down-the-middle pop
rock since 1996, when he emerged at the helm of Matchbox Twenty. He
writes big, blowzy songs about love and angst, occasionally sounds
like he's trying to eat his microphone, and is the bearer of what
may be the least appealing shag haircut in popular-music history.
But there's no doubting that he's a powerful singer, and with his
biggest hit — the ferociously cheesy...
Rating:
4 Stars
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06/22/2009 01:06 PM
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Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
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Artist:
Patrick Wolf
Review:
After his last album, the 2007 glam-rock epic Magic
Position, Patrick Wolf had a horrific revelation: He wasn't
being pretentious enough. So the art-damaged, beyond-androgynous
U.K. poet goes all out here. You want great songs about minotaurs?
"Theseus" features a spoken-word interlude from actress Tilda
Swinton. He plays around with Celtic folk with violinist Eliza
Carthy. "Vulture" is an electro-pop explosion with Wolf chanting,
"You're d-d-d-dead meat," over buzzing beats from Nineties...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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06/22/2009 01:04 PM
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Babatunde Olatunji - Drums Of Passion
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Artist:
Babatunde Olatunji
Review:
In the early 1960s, Babatunde Olatunji was the face of African
music in America. Though the real Afropop of the time was longer on
melodies of wisdom than drums of passion, the Nigerian
political-science student quickly found that to teach Americans
anything at all about Africa, he'd best keep it simple. So his six
albums for Columbia, the first and last of which resurface here
with unnecessarily jazzy bonus tracks, stick to theatrical
percussion compositions overlaid with catchy choral singing....
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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