Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
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Artist: Bonnie Prince BillyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-07-09
Music Label: Palace Records
Soundtracks:
- A Minor Place
- Nomadic Revery (All Around)
- I See A Darkness
- Another Day Full Of Dread
- Death To Everyone
- Knockturne
- Madeleine-Mary
- Song For The New Breed
- Today I Was An Evil One
- Black
- Raining In Darling
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Free Music Review: Moody yes, but lacking in dynamics
Hit: 3 Stars
This is the first CD I've heard of his, and I purchased it on the strength of reviews and word of mouth. It is moody yes, but there really arn't any dynamics within the songs. They are all slow, minimalist, with very little happening. The melodies are usually directionless, and songs often lack recognisable structure. Thus each song has a mood (generally dark) and really if you've heard part of a song, you've heard the whole of it musically. I don't mean this to be a fully damning review however. It works at what it attempts to do, and is not a bad album by any stretch. Listening to it, I just felt that it could be much more powerful and atmosphic if there were some variation in tempo and intensity.
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"Prince" Will Oldham has always threatened to make a completely devastating album and this is it. Brooding and strikingly intimate, I See a Darkness picks through the abandoned camps of Bob Dylan and Neil Young, finding lonely tales and ragged melodies strewn about. The magic comes in the light Oldham is able to shine on these songs, rendering them both gorgeously baroque yet starkly modern. --S. DudaWill Oldham, the artist formerly known as Palace, has never been concerned with creating pop music. Oldham's forte, murder ballads, antispirituals, dead-sea chanteys, and lost-love songs, has always been "difficult," forcing the listener to confront some rather unseemly topics. Say this about Oldham, however, despite his quirks (cracking vocals, shambolic instrumentation, baroque language), at its best, his music is bracing and, often, very beautiful. That said, I See a Darkness, his second LP since abandoning the Palace moniker, is the most accessible, gorgeous, and moving record of his career. Instead of the gothic, low-fi country feel of many of his projects, Darkness comes off sounding like an early-'70s Neil Young album, comprised of a stately piano backbone and fleshed out by loose-fitting guitar strums. Stylistically, Oldham mixes things up on Darkness and his full band sounds, for once, well practiced and well recorded. Sure, Oldham is still singing about the blackness of his soul, but in between--in small bursting moments--there are bits of light, hope, and a suggestion that maybe--just maybe--there may be redemption through love. That message, presented in these carefully constructed, gently offered songs, pushes this recording beyond the usual, curious appeal of Oldham and into an entirely new realm of greatness. S. Duda
Will Oldham's first Bonnie 'Prince' Billy release from 1999. Contains the classic 'I See A Darkness' covered by Johnny Cash.
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