Walter Becker - Circus Money
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Artist: Walter BeckerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Music Label: Mailboat Records
Soundtracks:
- Door Number Two
- Downtown Canon
- Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore
- Upside Looking Down
- Paging Audrey
- Circus Money
- Selfish Gene
- Do you Remember The Name
- Somebody s Saturday Night
- Darkling Down
- Gods Eye View
- Three Picture Deal
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Free Music Review: Nailed it...
Hit: 5 Stars
Do the gorgeous, sad refrains of 'Bad Sneakers' recall for you the bluesy, haunting peak of Steely Dan?
Remember that aching, after-hours sound, drowned away with a drink whose name you can barely remember let along pronounce? The pristine, but organic musicianship accompanying the bittersweet, cryptic lyrics; "Well I'm so alone, Tell me when they gonna send me home?"
If this is Steely Dan for you, you're in for a treat with Walter Becker's new, long awaited solo outing 'Circus Money'. 14 years in the wake of his last offering, '11 Tracks of Whack', this new album is of the same quality composition-wise and it's a huge improvement on the earlier album's 'home-made' production. Co-produced with one time Joni Mitchell's bassist/collaborator/life partner, Larry Klein, 'Circus Money' is a groovy, slick affair and the Klein/Becker junta is able to get more from the musicians (essentially variations on the last decade of Steely Dan's touring band) than just great performances.
Comparing this catalogue of tunes to Donald Fagen's last 2 solo LP's, Becker's songs seem to engage the musicians more, and their groove seems more compelling and faithful. Take for example, the drummer's drummer, Keith Carlock who plays on both Becker and Fagen's latest solo discs. On Fagen's 'Morph the Cat' he seems bound to play accomplice to Fagen's long standing mission to turn a human drummer into an unwavering groove machine, so 'in the pocket' and 'on the one' that he seems chained mercilessly to a click track. It killed me that Carlock seemed to have to beg permission to even add a fill at the end of 8 bars. Not so on 'Circus Money' with Keith's expression loosened up and allowed to prowl, snigger and spin where the material requires. It's like a different drummer and he's clearly enjoying the twisted jazz/reggae/pop/blues brew concocted by Becker on his new songs. The same can be said of the other top notch muso's gracing this album.
As for the songs, for me, they range from the magnificent 'Paging Audrey', 'Somebody's Saturday Night', 'God's eye view' - all of which I would've been happy to hear on any Dan album of the 70's (yes, I did just say that) to great tracks like 'Bob is not your uncle anymore', 'Selfish Gene' and 1 or 2 filler.
The words are sublime and befitting of Dan at their most canny:
"In that far-off room drenched in desert sun
Evil words were spoke -- dirty deeds were done
Could we sail back there snatch them from the air
I dare anyone"
The reason for 5 stars is that, with the sharp lyrics, and beautifully sad blues/jazz changes, there's just a hint of 'Katy Lied' back in the world to my ears, and that is really something to shout about. Make no mistake, Becker hasn't lost it; and hopefully he's just getting started with this great CD.
If you liked his last one, you may love this. If you like their 70's output, give it a listen.
I would even put this a definite notch above the last 2 Dan albums which could've benefited from more of the raspy, yearning cynicism of Becker's vocals; and certainly could've been improved with his more organic production style.
A self-confessed lazybones, Becker is finally back, better than ever, and we owe him thanks for reminding us that even people who can't be bothered still have a lot to say.
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Asian pressing of the 2008 sophomore solo album from one-half of Steely Dan includes the bonus track 'Dark Horse Dub'. It's only been 14 years since Walter Becker's last (and first) solo album was released. Now, at long last, the wait is finally over for the second. Circus Money finds Becker's sardonic sensibility completely intact and each of the album's songs, inflected with Jazz, Reggae and Rock phrasing, is a masterpiece of musical understatement and lyrical nuance. Produced by Larry Klein, Circus Money's songs (11 of which were co-written with Klein) explore modern malaise in a smilingly subversive way that is sure to curry favor with critics as well as Dan fans. Stand out tracks include 'Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore', 'God's Eye View' and Becker's jaundice take on the LA lifestyle archetype: 'Three Picture Deal'. Sonic 360.Classic Rock Music CDs
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