Concrete Blonde - Mojave
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Artist: Concrete BlondeEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Music Label: Eleven Thirty
Soundtracks:
- A "A" Road
- Because I Can
- True to This
- (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Concrete Blonde, Jones, Stan
- Hey Coyote
- Himalayan Motorcycles
- Mojave
- Snakes
- Jim Needs an Animal
- Someone's Calling Me
- Tornado at Rest
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Free Music Review: As raw as the desert in the title...
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember Concrete Blonde from their Bloodletting days but was absolutely smitten when I saw their rendition of 'Joey' on some MTV segment. With 1994's 'Mexican Moon' I was hooked. That album ripped through me like a scythe. I had never heard anything so raw, so right and so powerful. 'Still In Hollywood' further whet my appetite.
Then they all but disappeared.
I loosely followed the sojourn of the members of Concrete Blonde with Johnette's side projects but missed the Group Therapy album due to other musical interests. However, recently I stumbled across this one. I think I was a bit hesitant to listen to it due to such high expecations.
It isn't 'Mexican Moon' Part II. No, this is something totally different. Gone are the externally focused lyrics, gone are the guitar driven songs that rattle the cage of the listener, gone are the catchy hooks. Don't expect Bloodletting; don't expect 'Joey' or 'God is a Bullet'.
This one is darker, more brooding, more difficult, the lyrics more introspective, the guitars much slower, bluesy even, talking as only Jim Mankey can do.
The desert influence is all over this one. Desolate, introspective, slow, lumbering, intense and quite addicting.
Mojave Poster
Concrete Blonde's newest album "Mojave" provides a musical postcard from the edge of civilization, where lonely strips of asphalt wind their way through the coyote's backyard. Now the denizens of the desert that gave the album its name, singer/bassist Johnette Napolitano, guitarist Jim Mankey and drummer Gabriel Ramirez, provide a soundtrack to the scenic Southwest. The desert's strange beauty is reflected throughout "Mojave", from the shadowy, bass-driven opening track "A Road" to the sprawling soundscapes and ghostly vocals of "My Tornado At Rest." Spirit animals come crawling out of the arid night, with reptiles shedding skin in "Snakes" and Johnette explaining the mysterious desert dogs on "Hey Coyote." The specter-like quality of the desert's night sky is also captured in a haunting cover of "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky," the old Western chestnut re-popularized by Southern rockers The Outlaws in the early '80sAfter venting some severely pent-up spleen on their 2002 reunion album, L.A.'s Concrete Blonde wander into the parched desert outback that surrounds their hometown for inspiration. But the fiercely independent spirit that's been the trio's evocative creative muse (yielding unlikely hits like "God is a Bullet" and "Joey)" leads them down some challenging gulches here. Kicking off with bows to electro-charged modern rock ("The A Road" and "Because I Can") whose arroyo-of-noise often blunts the band's twin trademarks--the ever-underrated vocal dramatics of Johnnete Napolitano and guitarist Jim Mankey's lean, haunting fretwork--they regain their footing somewhat on a slow, dreamy take on the Western chestnut "Ghost Riders in the Sky," then careen headlong into preachy eco-consciousness ("Coyote") and the title track's meandering, spoken-word indulgences. The wry wit and restless, dark energy that fuels the album's closing third is a welcome return to focused form, even if it underscores its unintended desert metaphor and moral: The vast Mojave has inspired much aimless wandering, yet few dare call it home. --Jerry McCulley
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