Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - Lifeline
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Free Music Review: wow!
Hit: 5 Stars
A friend bought one of the songs from this album for me and based on that song I bought the album (unusual for me.) omg, I love this album. It is incredible.Free Music Review: Great album, not all studio retouched, just good music!
Hit: 5 Stars
I like the fact that this is just good honest music, not studio retouched. This is the first Ben Harper album I have ever bought and now want to buy more!Free Music Review: Great Soul and R&B
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a superb album. Everyone is our family loves it. The three first tracks alone are permanently moving.
Free Music Review: Yeah Ben Harper! FANTASTIC!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
We can't say enough about this CD--- absolutely Ben's best yet. A must have for any music lover any age!Free Music Review: Dance with Me to the Colors of the Dusk
Hit: 4 Stars
When we last saw Ben Harper, he dropped a pretty decent double album last album, half filled with funky grooves and the other with mellow tunes, which may have been better off as one single disk. The whole album barely went over an hour so conceivably it could have. Now Harper is back with his Innocent Criminals for a new album, Lifeline, recorded right after coming off his last tour straight to analog tape in a studio in Paris.
My guess it would be hard to be putting out album for fifteen years and only have one hit, yet it never seems to faze Harper who has never tried to recreate the funky Steal My Kisses or its limited success. The latest songs here on Lifeline sound like a mish mash of the two disks of Both Sides of the Gun into a singular not so rock, not so mellow disk. Most of the songs sound like a striped down version of seventies soul classic, very little flashes of horns, instead mostly acoustic guitars and pianos fill out the music.
On Needed You Tonight, Harper goes back and forth effortless from contained shouting to smooth vocals as if he were channeling Otis Redding. But the closest Harper comes to recreating that classic soul sound is on Heart of the Matters (not to be confused with the Don Henley song), a classic slow building song that culminates with the arrival of some backing singers to get across the great chorus and bridge at the end of the song.
Recording right off the road may have contributed to keeping the juices flowing in the Innocent Criminals because they haven't sounded better; they even come close to reaching the climax of the great Stax house band Booker T and the MG's. The groove created by the piano, electric and acoustic guitars for Put it on Me should have your toes tapping until the next time Ben and the boys go back into the studio.