Son Volt - The Search
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Artist: Son VoltEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Music Label: Transmit Sound/Legacy
Soundtracks:
- Slow Hearse
- The Picture
- Action
- Underground Dream
- Circadian Rhythm
- Beacon Soul
- The Search
- Adrenaline And Heresy
- Satellite
- Automatic Society
- Methamphetamine
- L Train
- Highways And Cigarettes
- Phosphate Skin
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Free Music Review: Son Volt gets a being-there kind of album
Hit: 5 Stars
Most people still can't help comparing Jay Farrar's Son Volt to Jeff Tweedy's Wilco since their former band Uncle Tupelo broke up years ago.
Wilco's 2nd album Being There was a creative high-water mark with 2 discs of experimentation and exploration of the band's sound.
The Search does the same for Son Volt...it is their Being There. There are several sounds and styles that one might not have expected from the Son Volt that gave us the classics Trace and Straightaways.
Mr. Farrar is more adventuruous and it shows in this collection of songs. Whether it be the fast rock of Automatic Society and Satellite or the classic vibes of Methamphetamine...this is the sound of a band that has no sonic boundaries.
The Search Poster
Five albums into Son Volt's career--and a pair into the band's rebirth following leader Jay Farrar's several solo ventures--it's time to bury the encumbering "alt-country" moniker that has dogged Farrar since his days in the genre-setting Uncle Tupelo. While the inexhaustible songwriter relied on guitars to drive 2005's rock-heavy Okemah and the Melody of Riot, Son Volt amends its familiar arrangements on The Search, balancing the instrumentation with piano, organ, and dabbles in a horn section. "Feels like drivin' 'round in a slow hearse," Farrar pleads over repetitive piano and East Indian guitar loops in "Slow Hearse." It's a pensive opener that suggests something is askew, but the horns that kick off "The Picture" literally scream it from the Stax vaults. Farrar dives in and out of genres, tingling the ivories to add subtle alterations to both the gorgeous "Underground Dream" and Imagine-like "Adrenaline and Heresy," turning his band into Gang of Four for the 134-second rocker "Satellite" and singing alongside Shannon McNally on the soulful "Highways and Cigarettes." While it may be impossible for this Son Volt to ever reach the pinnacle of their 1995 debut, no one can accuse Jay Farrar of going through the motions. --Scott HolterAlternative Rock Music CDs
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