Over the Rhine - The Trumpet Child
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Music CD Cover Artist: Over the Rhine Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-08-21 Music Label: Great Speckled Dog Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for The Trumpet Child Album
Free Music Review: Over the Rhine kicks into overdrive with 4th release within 12 months
Hit: 4 Stars
With the release of "The Trumpet Child", Over the Rhine has released not one, not two, not three, but FOUR albums in the past year. First there was the outstanding and long-awaited second Christmas album "Snow Angels" (independantly released in December 06), then there was "Live from Nowhere, Volume 2", a great live album also released independantly in early 07, and then there was "Discount Fireworks", the outstanding first ever career-overview, released by Back Porch also in early 07. After their record deal with Back Porch ran out in 2006, the band decided to go the independent route, and this is the first 'regular' studio to come out from that.
"The Trumpet Child" (11 tracks, 41 min.) continues the band's evolution into more jazzier sounds, even cabaret-like, as primary songwriter Linford Dettweiler writes in the liner notes. This comes out in songs like the opener "I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time", "I'm On a Roll" and the title track. Much better for me is the album's mid-section, with Karin Bergquist-penned track (and first single) "Entertaining Thoughts" and also "Let's Spend the Day In Bed", the best track of the album for me. There are a number of tracks on here that OtR has been playing in concert for a while now, including the funny "Trouble" (Karin's ode of sorts to Linford) and also the album closer "If A Song Could Be President", the most overtly political song ever from OtR, and, frankly, a turn-off for me, with silly lines like "We'll make Neil Young a Senator/Even though he's from Canada". Urr... no.
That aside, "The Trumpet Child" is a great addition to the rich Over the Rhine catalogue. Karin Bergquist's vocals sound as warm and rich as ever before. The band continues to evolve, and I've been on this ride since the early 90s. I can only hope they can keep surprising me!