Strand of Oaks - Pope Killdragon reviews
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 Timothy Showalter has a beard, an acoustic guitar, and a heartbreaking backstory-- on the surface, the confessional singer-songwriter start-up kit. But he'd prefer not to talk about his heavy history even if it would make you root for him. For one thing, he'd rather not relive some of the personal tragedy (a bad breakup, a house fire) that inspired his debut, Leave Ruin. But it also would obscure the otherworldly mythology he creates on Pope Killdragon, an astoundingly original twist on the loner-folk template.
He begins the mesmerizing "Sterling" like he's keeping an especially heavy secret, but Showalter is merely an observer and a confused one at that. If his lyrics are occasionally too loopy to pin down what it's "about," they're perfectly suited for an unreliable narrator trying to piece together lost time. In the darkly comic "Daniel's Blues", he inhabits Dan Aykroyd, racked with depression after the death of John Belushi. I won't spoil the ending, but it's by far the most pathos-laden song ever to recall the decision to take a role in Ghostbusters. Meanwhile, the spare "Alex Kona" is the stuff of Mastodon epics-- 12-foot monsters, sermons from the mount, mothers wailing in the streets-- and to drive that point home, it's immediately followed by "Giant's Despair", an honest-to-god doom-metal instrumental....full text |
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Certains le savent et c'est un avertissement préalable, j'ai un faible très prononcé pour la floppée de singers américains qui évouluent dans la sphère post-neilyoungienne, de Jason Molina à Will Oldham en passant par Will Johnson ou Mark Kozelek. Leurs meilleurs opus, qu'ils soient cachetés Songs: Ohia, Palace, Centromatic, South San Gabriel ou Red House Painters, déploient une immense nostalgie qui touche au coeur...
L'année passée, le premier album de Strands of Oaks ne m'avait donc pas échappé. Leave Ruin, malheureusement resté totalement confidentiel (au même titre que le -encore supérieur- Mood Food d'Unbunny, découvert en 2010 chez Blues, Jazz & Co) touchait à cette corde sensible. L'avantage d'être ainsi inaperçu est que les attentes ne s'accumulent guère. Timothy Showlater (puisqu'il s'agit d'un one man band), enseignant et chauffeur de bus de Pennsylvanie, n'a donc hanté les nuits de personne......full text |
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