Kimya Dawson - Hidden Vagenda
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Artist: Kimya DawsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Music Label: K. Records
Soundtracks:
- Its Been Raining
- Fire
- Viva La Persistence
- Lullaby for the Taken
- I Will Never Forget
- Singing Machine
- Moving On
- Blue
- Like Nevermind
- My Heroes
- Parade
- 5 Years
- Anthrax [Version]
- You Love Me
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Free Music Review: Moldy Peach, Fresh Tunes
Hit: 5 Stars
Originality makes life very difficult for reviewers because it makes us have to come up with our own new ideas. No longer can we dip into our cache of pet phrases to describe a piece of music that sounds like another piece of music.
Kimya Dawson's Hidden Vagenda is the latest album to invert my world. It is almost completely unlike any other folk rock I've been hearing while somehow remaining entirely familiar. With the Moldy Peaches (her band with Adam Green, who cameos on the intro to "Anthrax") on indeterminate hiatus, Dawson has been recording solo album after solo album to increasing fame and acclaim (Hidden Vagenda was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the top 25 most anticipated albums of autumn 2004).
For good reason, too, because can this woman write! Equal parts political ("Fire") and personal ("It's Been Raining"), and always surprising (check out that machine-gun delivery on "5 Years"), antifolk poster girl Dawson is one artist who is not hesitant to put her whole self on record. And her skill at recording those ideas, along with her ability to know how to approach a song (whether just her and a guitar -- "Lullaby for the Taken" -- with another singer -- -- or accompanied by a full chorus -- "I Will Never Forget"), is remarkable.
She is not afraid to whisper ("You Love Me") or yell ("I Will Never Forget") as necessary, or of a repetitive rhyme scheme. "Viva la Persistence," for example, is a call for reason hidden within a joyous little pop ditty with Jack Dishel's brushing drums where the rhymes just go on and on. And "Anthrax (powerballad version)" -- another rendering of a song from her album My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess -- is more moving that it has any right to be. Her choice of the power ballad (complete with an electric guitar solo from Scott Loving) is perfect for the weight of the message (the events following September 11th). "I Will Never Forget" is also surprisingly powerful for a track that stars both a toy piano and a full chorus.
There is nothing close to boredom to be found at any point during Hidden Vagenda. Each song's style is different from the last while retaining a flow. (The sudden beginnings and endings of several of the tracks on this CD make the album feel like Dawson make a cassette of her feelings -- complete with clicks -- just for our personal listening.) Some songs are melancholy, other are hopeful, but, like in all things, the best ones are a combination of both. And any album that name-drops both Julian Lennon and Scott Ian and has understated cameos from Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins simply needs to be heard.
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The problem with almost every contemporary female vocalist is that they?re always pretending to be something that they?re not. Sometimes it?s a highly feminine, sophisticated, sexual, love-lost artist with her heart on her sleeve?always pretending that she actually feels something or singing about a great love she never had. The Moldy Peaches co-founder (and goddaughter of Antifolk) Kimya Dawson succeeds by simply being true to herself. There is no empty space between her visions. There is no filler in her songs. Kimya Dawson prevails by being tender, vulnerable, silly and raw. She shows you what she loves and makes you love it, too. She is the quintessential authentic bohemian artist ? what almost every smoky nightclub jazz chanteuse wishes she could be. Dawson is the artist-poet skateboard girl. And, most importantly, she is a delicate human sensing device, the only real human on a planet full of androids. What makes her music so unique and amazing is her undiluted humanity; comparable only to Richard Pryor in the way she uses humor and sorrow combined as a personal healing device. Kimya Dawson?s new album, Hidden Vagenda (her first studio album after a trilogy of home recordings from 2000 ?2003) was recorded in the Bay Area at Mourningwood Studios and in friends? bedrooms, garages and yards. While recording, Dawson was joined by friends Joe Gore, Arion Salazar, Stephan Jenkins, Daniel Johnston, Vanessa Carlton and a children?s choir in St. Ouen, France. Hidden Vagenda was co-produced and mixed by Jason Carmer (The Donnas, Run DMC, Third Eye Blind), Arion Salazar and Kimya Dawson.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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