Teddy Thompson - A Piece of What You Need
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Artist: Teddy ThompsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Music Label: Verve Forecast
Soundtracks:
- The Things I Do
- What's This?!
- In My Arms
- Where to Go from Here
- Don't Know What I Was Thinking
- Can't Sing Straight
- Slippery Slope
- Jonathan's Book
- One of These Days
- Turning the Gun on Myself
- A Piece of What You Need
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Free Music Review: Who said happiness kills creativity? This is a small masterpiece.
Hit: 5 Stars
Teddy's in love.
Or, knowing how sly Teddy Thompson can be, I should say: At the very least, his persona is.
Either way, this is very good news.
"Happy lies ahead," Teddy Thompson predicted when I interviewed him in the spring of 2007.
And then he hedged: "But you never know --- it could turn nasty."
If you're in the Teddy Thompson cult --- and it's ridiculous that a cult is still all there is, because this guy is about as major as it gets --- you know that's classic Teddyspeak. He's invariably divided. His own worst enemy. Shockingly self-loathing, a genius at sabotaging relationships. And, of course, hopelessly romantic.
He writes pop songs that get crazy-glued to your memory, but he delights in project like a CD of country songs; he can make a Leonard Cohen song sound fresh. For a child of veteran musicians, he's way too articulate, ironic and self-effacing --- way too complicated --- for the business he's in.
In the past, he's been that character. Now, in "A Piece of What You Want", he confronts that guy with thrilling directness.
As you might expect, the CD starts with the singer stumbling: "It's getting harder and harder to live with myself/ I'm getting weaker in mental and physical health." He's "one night out away from the analyst's couch." But disgust is, of course, shot through with irony: "My standards are slipping day by day/ I'll sleep with anyone who gets in my way." The punch line: "No one's coming to save me now."
But wait! The second song is a total reversal: "What's this, what's this/Am I happy or something?" The voices in his head say "this will never work" but this time he's not running scared, this time it's all good. And while his arms are "not an easy place to be", he does grasp that it's hard to get lost there. So far, so great.
But wait yet again! This is Teddy Thompson --- by the fourth song, he's screwed it up. And feeling awful: "I'm minutes away, I'm taking the next train/ Don't know what I was thinking."
And so it goes, back and forth, a novel told in monologues. Or, better, a song cycle that, by turns, invokes Johnny Cash ("Maybe I'll learn to walk the line"), big band music, the powerhouse anthems of a Springsteen and much, much more. He can rock, he can boogie, he can steal your woman with a broken-hearted ballad --- musically, the CD burns hot and shiny.
And smart. Above all, smart. The kids who like simple and stupid are gonna wonder why Mom and Dad are listening to this English guy. Their loss. "A Piece of What You Want" is music for grown-ups who can still tap their toes, raise a fist, confront demons, hate phonies and come back for more. Very simply, it's a small masterpiece.
Who said happiness kills creativity?
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"I think this album is my pop record but I'm not really sure because I'm not sure what that word means anymore." - Teddy ThompsonNo matter how you classify it, Thompson's third release on Verve Forecast is a gem! Produced by Marius de Vries (Bjork, Madonna, Rufus Wainwright) Piece is a sonically brilliant recording of upbeat songs filled with Teddy's impassioned vocals and clever but heartfelt lyrics.
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