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MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY-Superwolf
Superwolf is a collaborative effort by an ex-Zwan/ex-Chavez dude and Will Oldham, plus a few odd players to fill the thing up. Old Bill supplies the words, as is, we think, his very best calling, while Sweeney does the tune-age, or so we've read (is this even true?). No matter what the division of labour, however, the thing is good music—and we can all agree that good music is good. It's got more of a dirty bluesy Viva Lost Blues feel than the emptier Palace stuff but with a little more savvy in the studio, like that slick re-imagining of the Palace catalogue played via rich Nashville style, but a little less so, if you follow. Here's what to expect: imagistic lyrics with possible deep meaning and the occasional well-placed crudity plus sweet fret work and other instrumentation. There is a vague sense that maybe we've heard this before from the bearded one yet it's so finely done that such critique is merely cursory train-spotting. Besides, why knock a good thing, which is, we again all recognize, good.
CD/LP 16.98 Sale |
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