Ani Difranco - Revelling/Reckoning
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Free Music Review: People need to keep an open mind with Ani
Hit: 5 Stars
This album, in my opinion, is one of the best I've ever heard. Granted, there are a couple songs that I don't care for on it, but it's actually what got me hooked on Ani. This was the first album I heard of hers, and I was hooked immediately. As I've gone back and listened to her older works more and more,I've come to realize more and more all the different influences and musical bases she's emerged from, and as a result listening to this set of music has become even more of a joy than when I first heard it. Ani's always had a very definitive, revolutionary sound. She started out intensely folky and even with some country influences, and now is at a jazzier, more musically sophisticated phase in her musicianship. I've heard all these influences more and more on this album as a result of listening and studying her past works, and I think just now I've started to realize the gorgeous intricacies of the Revelling/Reckoning set. I understand that many fans of hers would feel rather alienated from this seemingly sharp turn of her musical style, but I think that her "change" is a change to be celebrated, not a source of alienation and insult to Ani as an artist. I don't understand how people can be so shocked that she made a surprising change of musical style; hasn't Ani ALWAYS been a person to push forward and not keep doing the same thing out of habit or out of fear of change? We see this not only in her lyrics and what she's saying, but how she's saying it and in her musical leanings. In conclusion, I feel that Revelling/Reckoning is a superb album set and shows the genius that we all know resides within its maker: Ani Difranco.Free Music Review: Reinstate faith through fire and reckoning
Hit: 5 Stars
There are 2 schools of thought that find themselves distinctly stubborn as followers of the wonderful musician we know as Ani. I've met many wonderful people who claim themselves die hard Ani fans, own every cd, t-shirt and concert stub since the days she toured with Dylan. Ani grew up playing the beatles in smoky bars, then moving on to the Joni Mitchell / Dylan(although she would dispute this) influenced folk militia to angry-hurting-"semi-tortured-melodramatic" vein'd Dilate, to what this album represents. Some people have loved her music ever since. Others have been waiting for Dilate part 2 out of her. This is by far one of the most diverse (2 original cd's) she has released, but we've said that for years. Tracks that take you from suicide "School Night" to folk inspired politica on "Your Next Bold Move". I'm not sure what more the 2 schools of Ani-ism (were there such a thing) would want in compromise. This album has it all, from the fine tuned studio work, to impeccible guitar work to her most sharpened sense of poetry. To those who have remained unsatisfied since Dilate, if it is the anger you've been hunting, I'd suggest this album, but look deeper into it. Ani is the most poetically articulate artist of our times, it would be close to heresay, but truth in saying she has reached a point as close as one in our times could to the fork the greatest of musicians (i.e Bob Dylan, 1966). And it is up to her to continue what we value her most for, in doing exactly as she pleases. Everyone is a [ ] Napoleon.Free Music Review: The album that made me an Ani fan
Hit: 5 Stars
I enjoyed Ani's sound before Revelling/Reckoning was released, but I was not a serious fan. After several albums, her folky sound was starting to bore me... even the live releases were becoming mundane. After several jam sessions, spoken word rants, and live guitar strum tantrums, I started to wonder, "Is this the only thing that such an innovative musician is willing to experiment with? When is Ani going to put a spin on her sound?"
Then I heard Revelling/Reckoning, and got what I wanted with songs like "O.K." and "Heartbreak Even." The horns and flute create a fabulous blend with Ani's style of guitar playing. I was pleasantly surprised with the sophistication of the music. It sounded like a sweet fusion of jazz and folk, not an experiment gone wrong.
I find it appalling that so many Ani fans have looked down upon this album with contempt. It is fresh, funky, and still full of the things that Ani fans love about her...
Fierce Flawless brings you back to the "righteous babe" feeling that Ani's music tends to induce. Marrow is there for those of us who appreciate Ani's ability to twist and mold the English language like play-dough.
Obviously, Revelling is my favorite CD out of the pair, but both pieces of the album compliment each other. Ani DiFranco is a very talented musician. Revelling/Reckoning was a bold step away from her "norm", but it was a step in the right direction.
Free Music Review: the kerouac of music
Hit: 5 Stars
i've heard various people compare ani difranco to jack kerouac. both wrote intensly autobiographical works, both produced a seemingly endless supply of creations, both were unique in their styles. but when jack was forty, he was still surrounded by people who assumed he was really "26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking". i think ani is in the same situation. i'm a big fan of her early stuff (ani difranco, not so soft, etc) but she isn't a 19 year old girl anymore. revelling and reckoning reflects the woman she's become. her music and lyrics have matured over the past ten years and now her sound is more refined, her lyrics even more eloquent. every time she comes out with a new album, people accuse her of "selling out" because her sound changes. selling out would be if she didn't change, if she was still trying to hang onto the sound she had ten years ago even though it is apparent that her life has changed a lot since then. i highly reccomend this album to everyone who listens to ani because she somehow manages to vocalize thier emotions. it's a multi-faceted collection of some of her most personal and possibly best work to date.Free Music Review: No Title
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been listening to Ani for about 4 years now and although I cannot call myself a true to the bone die hard from the first day she ever wrote a song Ani fan, I can say that I have tremendously enjoyed watching her style and music progress over the years. As a person who accepts the darwin theory of music (that is, those who do not evolve will not survive) I have really appreciated Ani's ability to play many styles of music and to adapt that style from album to album. In that way I am extremely thankful that this album is not Dilate part 2. It would be a shame for Ani to continue to write the same thing over again because she stated it so clearly and beautifully the first time. I find revelling to be the one of these that I listen to the most, not that I really think it's better, just that it appeals to me more. As Ani is so diverse I love putting a new album of hers in, I don't know what to expect aside from some exceptionally intelligent music. Her writing ability hasn't changed, although the style has and all in all that makes revelling/reckoning a huge success in my book.