The 6th's - Hyacinths and Thistles
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Artist: The 6th'sEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- As You Turn to Go
- Give Me Back My Dreams
- He Didn't
- I've Got New York
- Just Like a Movie Star
- Kissing Things
- Lindy Lou
- Night Falls Like a Grand Piano
- The Dead Only Quickly
- The Sailor in Love With the Sea
- Volcana!
- Waltzing Me All the Way Home
- You You You You You
- Oahu
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Free Music Review: What is "quality"?
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great little CD. Comparisons to other Merritt works are inevitable, but I'm disappointed at the harshness of some of the criticism here. One reviewer slagged the female singers and one said he had no interest in checking out Odetta. If "Waltzing Me All the Way Home" doesn't break your heart, I question your humanity. This is one of my favorite songs by anyone anywhere at any time; no silky smooth singer could have done it justice.
Hyacinths and Thistles Poster
Perhaps we've been spoiled by the prolific talents of Stephen Merritt. He's the brainchild behind the 6ths, Magnetic Fields, and Future Bible Heroes, which all prove that sentimentality didn't die out with the Tin Pan Alley songsmith. And we've come to expect nothing short of brilliance from him (which he so perfectly illustrated in the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs). The 6ths is less a band than a studio project, an outlet in which Merritt's higher-marquee friends get to cover the songwriter's ditties. The lineup of guest vocalists on Hyacinths and Thistles is impressive enough (Gary Numan, Melanie, Bob Mould, Odetta, and Sally Timms, to name a few), but the moments of synth-pop brilliance--Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell on "Kissing Things" and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon on "The Dead Only Quickly"--are few and far between. Odetta's "Waltzing Me All the Way Home" sounds like a heartfelt Tom Waits tune, but it follows Marc Almond's overblown exotica track, "Volcana!" Yes, Mr. Merritt, we know you have a lot of musical friends whose ability to traverse styles (from disco to sea shanty) is impressive. But whereas Wasps' Nests, the 6ths' debut CD, felt like a cohesive song cycle, Hyacinths and Thistles sounds like a thrown-together tribute disc. --Jason VerlindeAlternative Rock Music CDs
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