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PAULA FRAZER AND TARNATION - Now It's Time
| Popmatters | | After a pair of successful solo albums, alt-country heroine Paula Frazer has resuscitated the moniker Tarnation with the release of Now It’s Time. But why is now the time? One guess is that the two other albums which bear that name, 1995’s Gentle Creatures and 1997’s Mirador, have refused to fade into that dark night of cultural memory, steeping in the collective consciousness of No Depression readers and Cormac McCarthy devotees as benchmarks of all that is authentic, true, and twangy. ...full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Thirty seconds in and Paula Frazer’s sweet, high-lonesome vocal comes close to collapsing. Emitting the erudite trickery of a tightrope walker, she wobbles and wavers for effect, hitting the high note whilst effectively dangling one foot off the wire at the same time. She’s in control though. Like a kite flyer caught off guard by a gust of wind, she reins the note in and rolls it down an octave or two. Unfortunately, for fans of Frazer and her old band Tarnation (whose name she resurrects for this outing), her vocal dexterity is downplayed on Now It’s Time. Instead of the Patsy Cline swoops of albums past, Frazer embraces a folk vibe that’s more Sandy Denny than sweetheart of the rodeo....full text |
| | DustedMagazine | | One of the loveliest voices in contemporary music belongs to Paula Frazer, icy pure and ghostly at the top, yet warm and natural and fluid in the middle. If she'd grown up in Italy instead of rural Georgia, she might have been an opera singer, but instead, she turned her attention to pop and country. With Tarnation in the 1990s, she added Americana flourishes to 4AD's stable of unearthly female singers. ...full text |
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