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For how many awards this won and how big of a star Billie is, it's weird to say, but this album is, frankly, underrated. To create something so tonally unique and distinct this early in one's career is truly a momentous achievement. Perhaps more impressive is the consistency in tone, despite ranging from trap-inspired, electropop bangers like 'Bad Guy' and 'You Should See Me in a Crown' to softer ballads like 'When the Party's Over' and 'Listen Before I Go' to playful pop songs like 'All The ... read more
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Baez' rendition of 'There But For Fortune' is a top 10 song of all time for me. Just perfect. The album starts really strong with the first few tracks and, when listening to the the version I did with the reissue bonus tracks: 'Tramp on the Street' and 'Long Black Veil', it ends well too. Unfortunately, I found most of the middle stretch to be rather underwhelming - vocals remained expressive, but song selection could have been a lot better. Not sure opera ... read more
Very beautiful work, though I can't help but be a little frustrated after listening to 'Hey, Who Really Cares?' (genuinely one of the finest songs ever made) that there wasn't a little more structural soundness behind more of these tracks. The vocal layering, melodies, and instrumentals are interesting and unique enough on their own that they don't need such wishy-washy structures to exude the psychedelic folk effect the album is after. Not just 'Hey, Who Really ... read more
Mystery and intrigue exude from every pore of this album. Folk music, like folklore itself, benefits from an elusive, liminal quality, stuck in time and space, never providing all the answers - as is said in 'Inside Llewyn Davis': "If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it's a folk song". When listening to Tia Blake's rediscovered lost album from 1971, supposedly recorded in Paris during a fleeting romance with a married Sicilian songster in the backdrop ... read more
I'm sorry, but this being one of Coltrane's highest-rated albums on here just doesn't sit right with me.
It's rated alongside 'Blue Train', 'Giant Steps', and 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane' but those albums are filled with newly composed tracks, featuring similar, and in my opinion better, displays of exceptional technical jazz playing, whilst remaining melodically friendly.
Jazz, of course, is frequently about taking and transforming ... read more
The confidence to call your album that... But it delivered. INSANE double bass playing by Charlie Haden. Coleman, Cherry on the cornet, and Higgins on the drums were all in exemplary form too. I'm actually against the grain, preferring the final 4 tracks to the first 2, though they were all pretty damn great.
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Fan of: Jazz / Folk / Rap / Film Scores / Classical. Dabble in everything else. Very bad at getting around to listening to new releases, but I try. 22.
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