Tracy Bonham - Masts Of Manhatta reviews
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| Allmusic |
 Tracy Bonham’s career trajectory seems to run in reverse; with each record, she gets riskier, coming a long, long way from the bottled-up furious angst of her ‘90s alt-rock staple “Mother Mother.” Masts of Manhatta, her fourth album and first since 2005’s Blink the Brightest, ups the ante from that haunting record by accentuating its elliptical turns, its songs dodging conventional routes in favor of left turns. Bonham is assisted greatly by Beck guitarist Smokey Hormel and his trio, who lend her songs earthiness and art, giving this heft and welcome unpredictability. To an extent, Bonham lays out her album’s thesis on “We Moved Our City to the Country,” a knowing satire of hipsters fleeing the urban jungle for faux authenticity, where she feels the pull of the two extremes as evidenced by how her sawing violin contrasts with the cabaret shuffle of Hormel’s group. Masts of Manhatta walks this line throughout, sometimes getting quite a bit livelier, sometimes indulging in decidedly moody textures, always twisting just slightly from the expected, making for a record that’s quite intriguing upon the first listen and better on repeats, where the songs begin to dig in and all the textures gain resonance....full text |
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| Rollingstone. |
| "I'd like to be my own best friend/Turns out there's no reciprocal feelings," sings Tracy Bonham. A relatable sentiment, but there's no adolescent angst on her fourth disc, a gorgeous celebration of adult love. Manhatta has a pastoral, jazzy pulse and is full of crafty details the "Superfly" bass line driving "Big Red Heart," or the way she sings, "You make my heart go/Like Gogol Bordello." Whether she's puzzling out marriage or making out in an AMC Hornet, Bonham has definitely hit her groove....full text |
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| Boston |
| Tracy Bonham, who honed her talents locally, was lumped in with the Angry Young Women trend in the mid-’90s with the song “Mother Mother,’’ which sparked two Grammy nominations. Today, though, she has a much softer, more Norah Jones-filtered sound. She is happily married and divides her time between homes in Brooklyn and Woodstock, N.Y. She has always been a skilled composer, but while there are some great songs on “Masts of Manhatta,’’ it’s not a great album. The highlights include the jazzy folk rock of “Big Red Heart’’ and the playful “Devil’s Got Your Boyfriend,’’ spiced by the same Middle Eastern-style violin that Bonham once played on the Page & Plant tour. Other winners are the pastoral “We Moved Our City to the Country’’ and klezmer-inspired “Josephine.’’ But some songs are way too precious, namely the forced “You’re My Is-ness’’ and strangely stilted “Reciprocal Feelings.’’ It’s even too precious to title the album “Masts of Manhatta.’’ It’s taken from a poem by Walt Whitman but adds to the overly cutesy tone. There’s almost no rock edge here, and this from a woman who was once a great rock hope. (Out now)...full text |
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