Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul
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Artist: Jesse Sykes and the Sweet HereafterEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Music Label: Barsuk
Soundtracks:
- Eisenhower Moon
- LLL
- You Might Walk Away
- The Air Is Thin
- Spectral Beings
- How Will We Know?
- Hard Not To Believe
- Aftermath
- Station Grey
- I Like The Sound
- Morning, It Comes
- The Open Halls Of The Soul
Free Music Notes for Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul
Free Music Review: Intriguing
Hit: 4 Stars
When I first heard this I thought I was hearing some lost lost album with Melanie Safka jamming with Crazy Horse, and playing some long-lost songs by the Kinks and Small Faces after listening to John Cale and Lou Reed. Of course that's not the case but it's been a nice surprise anyhow! I'm also surprised nobody else has mentioned Melanie as hers is the first voice that sprang to mind - check out Candles in the rain and you'll hear what I mean. Very enjoyable album compentently played with feeling.
Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul Poster
Jesse Sykes is hard to pin down--and that's a good thing indeed. She overlaps with current trends, but is completely her own artist. There are elements of alt-country, psych-folk, and singer-songwriter-troubadour, but also others that add alluring breadth to her sound, most notably in the band's penchant for drawing upon the best aspects of Haight-Ashbury ballroom sonics. "How Will We Know" swirls and builds with guitar tones that evoke John Cippolina (Quicksilver Messenger Service) and Barry Melton (Country Joe & the Fish). Sykes has taken those sounds (which were often the best part of the era's rather feeble cowboy machismo) and added finesse, poetics, and a woman's vantage point. Her lyrics are rife with cold winds and loneliness, but never without hope, even if that element is handled by the warm glow of the music. The band is a sympathetically balanced entity with supple power and grace. They move between loud and soft without the now cliched extreme dramatics originally pioneered by the Pixies--another example of Sykes eschewing trends and forging her own path. --David GreenbergerCountry Music CDs
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