Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
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Artist: Bill FayEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-05-03
Music Label: Eclectic Discs
Soundtracks:
- Omega Day
- Don't Let My Marigolds Die
- I Hear You Calling
- Dust Filled Room
- 'Til the Christ Come Back
- Release Is in the Eye
- Laughing Man
- Inside the Keepers Pantry
- Tell It Like It Is
- Plan D
- Pictures of Adolf Again
- Time of the Last Persecution
- Come a Day
- Let All the Other Teddies Know
Free Music Notes for Time of the Last Persecution
Free Music Review: File under Heavy, Takes Time To Get Into But It's Worth It.
Hit: 5 Stars
4.5 stars.
Time Of The Last Persecution is a CD that I first listened to after hearing Bill Fay's debut disc. While I found that disc over-orchestrated, I liked several of the songs on it. But it did nothing to prepare me for this - a very dark disc where exorcising of demons seemed to be taking place.
After first listening to it and thinking that it was not too bad but nothing extraordinary, I put it back on the shelf for a month or 2. Coming back to it, I found it hard to take it out of my disc player. It has now become one of my favorites by anyone, when taken as a whole.
The arrangements are a bit like what you might hear the band Chicago play back in 1970 if they were playing a really dark, heavy set of songs. Lots of horns. Rock backing that's heavy on piano and acoustic guitar. On listening to the disc, it's understandable why Fay looks so unkempt on the cover, compared to his last album. He has clearly gone through some rough times and come out on the other side with this collection.
I love several of these tracks, the first 3 in particular are a great listen if you have enough time to listen to all at once.
One thing is certain - I don't have any other albums that sound like this one. I have to recommend this and ask listeners to be patient and not expect anything they already know - certainly not Dylan, Davies or Drake, as the cover sticker implies. Though you can certainly hear all 3 influences in Fay's fine writing.
File under Heavy, Takes Time To Get Into But It's Worth It. Helps if you're open to something that is sounds like an exorcism took place just prior to recording.
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Bill Fay is an Enigmatic UK-BASED Singer, Songwriter and Pianist Whose Work is Impossible to Categorize. His Late 60s and Early 70s Work Has a Strong Cult Following and is Highly Regarded by Many Music Journalists with his Dark and Haunting Songs, Rarely Going Over Three Minutes.Folk Music CDs
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