Dolly Varden - Forgiven Now
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Artist: Dolly VardenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Music Label: Undertow Music
Soundtracks:
- Surrounded By The Sound
- Trying To Live Up
- Forgiven Now
- The Lotus Hour
- Overwhelming
- Wish I Were Here
- There's A Magic
- Time For Me To Leave
- Disappear
- 1000 Men Like Cigarettes
- Meant to be
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Free Music Review: Surrounded by the Sound!
Hit: 5 Stars
What a talented group this is! Beautiful vocals, harmonies, duets, melodies, great instrumentation-they have it all. Most of the songs are written with broad strokes-you can fill in the details yourself. As someone who is deeply interested in lyrical content, I enjoy and appreciate this approach. The production is superb, the band really plays well, and you can tell this group has worked long and hard with each other. The songs are mostly about the joy of music, dysfunctional families (but I'm not quite sure who's at fault), love gone wrong, love gone right, and leaving that anger behind. There's a slight hint of country on a few of the songs, and it adds a nice texture to the sound. My favorite song is the hauntingly beautiful "The Lotus Hour" with Diane Christiansen doing the vocals and some subtle slide guitar played by Al Perkins. Another favorite is "There's A Magic" which is a song about love for the long haul, and is the only "real" country song on the disc. The rest of the cd is really great, and on any given day I have a new favorite, which is really the hallmark of a great record. Highly Recommended!
Forgiven Now Poster
For Dolly Varden's new album, Forgiven Now, the band came to another creative peak. Especially evident is Diane's blossoming songwriting talent, and the growing strength of a band now in it's seventh year of making music together. This is truly a full-band effort. All five musicians' voices can be heard intertwined in the album's layered production. In addition, pedal steel legend Al Perkins makes a guest appearance on Christiansen's hypnotic "The Lotus Hour" and on Dawson's George Jones/Tammy Wynette-inspired country shuffle, "There's A Magic". Discussing the album Dawson says, "when we lined these songs up back to back there seemed to be a common link...so many of them seemed to be about leaving behind resentments, trying to see a bigger picture. That's where the title comes from."Dolly Varden, the Chicago band named for a hard-to-catch trout, returns for its fourth album with a hypnotic set of songs about resentment and anger, and the importance of leaving both behind. The singing-songwriting team of Stephen Dawson and Diane Christiansen, husband and wife in private life, lace every song with tuneful anguish and provide plenty of vivid imagery to illustrate their emotions. "Bone white faces I recall barking out advice," Dawson sings in "Forgiven Now," later serving up a fine, surreal take on a visitation of Jesus on "Overwhelming." They interrupt their intelligent pop amalgam for an overtly honky-tonk shuffle on "There's a Magic," where, actually, aside from Al Perkins's pedal steel guitar work, there isn't much. But they quickly launch back into poetic dreaminess, particularly on "1,000 Men Like Cigarettes," a meditation on loneliness and promiscuity that's weird--and enticing--enough for David Lynch. No further explanation about the trout, but by album's end, you'll be thoroughly hooked all the same. --Alanna Nash
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