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Free Music Review: Eloge de la lenteur
Hit: 5 Stars
Au cours des ann?es 90, un mouvement assez h?t?roclite a vu le jour aux Etats-Unis, prosa?quement baptis? la nouvelle sc?ne folk am?ricaine, dont les meilleurs repr?sentants seraient Lambchop, Mazzy Star ou Palace. Mais un vrai-faux groupe, men? par l'?nigmatique Mark Kozelek, m?rite toute l'attention, et particuli?rement cet album, deuxi?me sommet d'un fameux diptyque, r?sultat de fructueuses sessions d'enregistrement r?alis?es en 1993.
Difficile d'acc?s au premier abord (le relatif herm?tisme du livret et de la superbe pochette, ainsi que la nudit? instrumentale de la musique, en rebuteront plus d'un...), le disque r?v?le cependant toutes ses qualit?s au fil des ?coutes, les propres compositions de Mark Kozelek, titres ? la lenteur magnifiquement ma?tris?e (le poignant Bubble), faisant place ? quelques reprises - I Am A Rock de Paul Simon, ou The Star Spangled Banner, l'hymne national am?ricain martyris? en son temps par Jimi Hendrix - prodigieuses tant le groupe parvient ? se lib?rer des trames originales des chansons.
L'un des attraits de l'ouvre r?side incontestablement dans les talents vocaux de Mark Kozelek. Mais quels drames effrayants, quelles funestes trag?dies ont pu blesser cet homme, pour que sa voix douloureuse soit empreinte ainsi des stigmates de la souffrance et du d?sespoir ? Ailleurs, son chant ?voquerait m?me l'aridit? tra?nante de Gene Clark, la clart? souveraine d'un Michael Stipe, voire l'?l?gance mutine de Bobbie Gentry (trompeusement, l'album d?bute par des rires insouciants...). Cette d?solation, cet amer sentiment d'abandon, s'instillent dans les diff?rentes plages de l'album : Uncle Joe, inqui?tante ballade en forme de confession d?finitive, le terrifiant Blindfold, aux vertus cathartiques ?videntes, o? Mark Kozelek semble vouloir se purger de toute la laideur et des frustrations accumul?es au cours de ses ann?es d'indigence...
Mais un titre particuli?rement, qui se cache au milieu du disque, restera ? mes yeux Le chef-d'ouvre des RHP : Helicopter, morceau ? la beaut? d?routante, o? le chant d?senchant? de Mark Kozelek r?alise un authentique tour de force. Amorc? a capella, d'une voix presque apais?e, le titre d?ploie doucement ses d?licats arp?ges de guitare, puis ? la faveur d'une lente gradation, aboutit ? un sommet d'introspection d?sabus?e ("Daylight won't find a trace..."), et ? une mise ? nu presque ind?cente, nous laissant ainsi entrevoir les affres les plus sombres de l'?me tourment?e du leader... ; et ? chaque fois cette myst?rieuse interrogation : comment un groupe constitu? de trois musiciens, dont un bassiste qui joue avec un doigt et un batteur ? qui l'on a retir? la moiti? de ses ?l?ments, peut-il ? ce point occuper l'espace, impr?gner l'atmosph?re de ses textures sonores si riches et si amples ?
Sans aucun doute l'ouvre la plus personnelle et la plus passionnante de cet artiste trop souvent rel?gu? ? une reconnaissance indigne de son talent, et qui est devenue avec les ann?es une des bandes-son privil?gi?es de mes singuliers moments de m?lancolie apathique...
Free Music Review: On par with their best
Hit: 5 Stars
I've kind of immersed myself in the Red House Painters over the last few months so I can compare this one pretty confidently to the others. I'll say without hesitation that this is equal to anything they've done and possibly my single favorite album. 4 tracks are masterpieces (Bubble, Helicopter, Uncle Joe, Sundays and Holidays) -- how many other albums by *anyone* can you say that about? The remakes (I won't call them covers since they're so altered from their originals) of I am a Rock, Star Spangled Banner, and the 2 versions of Shock Me don't work as well, but I attribute this mostly to the weakness of the source; I mean, how good can a Kiss song ever really be ('Black Diamonds' excepted)? Yet even these make for fairly enjoyable interludes between the moments of brilliance.If you like these guys at all, please do yourself a favor and pick this one up. It's a little harder to find in the stores, and if you're the instant-gratification type like me and prefer having the little sucker in your hands when you purchase it you may be put off by this. But it's worth the week of shipping time, I assure you.
Free Music Review: Their weakest album, I guess.
Hit: 2 Stars
This is a collection of outtakes and leftovers from the "Rollercoaster" album, and it's instantly noticeable why these songs were excluded from that album: except for "New Jersey" and "Uncle Joe", this is simply weak material. If you're a serious fan, you may like this, but novices should head for one of the other RHP albums first.Free Music Review: I don't know about his others, but this is great...
Hit: 5 Stars
This being the first and only album I own by RHP, I can't speak to all the comparisons made below, but I can say that I think it's great. As is typical for me, I first listened, loved New Jersey, and thought the rest was boring. Then after a few months pulled it out, put it on, and fell in love. I agree that the emotional canvas here is a broad one. Just makes me want to lay in a field in the sun. Pastoral is a pretty good word for the album (as suggested by the cover).Mark Kozelek's voice, though usually placid and soothing, does have impressive capabilities both for emotion and range. Uncle Joe gives me chills just about every time. Very raw. Lyrically, the songs mesh with the instrumentation and tunes. Very complementary. Usually, I get a kick out of sad lyrics sung happy and other oxymoronic songs, but I'm thankful that Mark doesn't do that. The songs are too beautiful to trivialize.
I'm about ready to get another album. The reason I haven't yet is that I haven't been ready to move on from this one yet. And I've had it for over a year!
Free Music Review: the most underrated of them
Hit: 5 Stars
This is DEFINITELY the most underrated of any of the cd's that RHP have put out to date. I've heard/seen it called boring, bad, etc. The fact is that this album is my favorite of them is irrelevant; what is important is that Mark Kozelek and co. offer probably the most representative work in their discography, and every song will play an emotion to someone. "Evil" will drag out the paranoia in you, while "Helicopter", probably the most beautiful song ever written, will display the one glimmer of hope you have seen in the last decade; very uplifting. "Uncle Joe", "Blindfold", and a disturbingly wonderful cover of "I Am A Rock" will make any listener understand both isolation and acceptance. What's more is that, musically, this album takes the parts of DOWN COLORFUL HILL which were downplayed and makes them more relevant, and even hints of what is to come on OCEAN BEACH; think of having your eyes made larger or even getting a tattoo. The ambience and texture of Mark's vocals against the battling drones from the guitars and sometimes piano, adding the sheer power which results, will make this almost a religious experience. No REAL RHP fan can deny these songs or what they mean to both the listener and the man who wrote them. Sure, the CD may be the songs that didn't fit in anywhere to the ROLLERCOASTER album; think of this as the BreakfastClub of CDs. It's these odds and ends which make both the magic of the cd and the true magic and humanness of RHP's music tangible. Try listening to it again.
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