TORTOISE & BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - The Brave And The Bold reviews
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| Entertainment Ireland |
 This collaboration between Kentucky's musical maestro Will Oldham and the Chicago instrumental indie band Tortoise is a rare creature. It features ten covers, some obscure and some so familiar even the most mindless of radio DJs will recognise them. Opening with an animated version of Milton Nascimento's Cravo e Canela and running into a synthed-up, yet unmistakably Oldham interpretation of Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road, this bizarre hybrid is considered yet scratchily executed. ...full text |
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| FakeJazz |
| Opinion on this album is likely to be pretty split, depending on whether you feel you are in on the joke or whether you think the joke's on you. People who listen to Oldham's music for sport treat his as a facade - a normal guy hiding behind a big persona and an even bigger beard. People who listen to Oldham's music for fun find warmth, charm, and honesty in his stories, even if (like Jesus) they are just stories. ...full text |
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| Popmatters |
| The joke of this album’s title is that it comes from a DC Comics series in which various characters meet up—Batman and the Green Lantern and Flash Gordon all together, for instance—in great intertextual struggle against the forces of evil. So, on this album, shape-shifter Will Oldham adopts what may be his best alter-ego character, the libertine Bonnie “Prince” Billy, to join forces with the Booker T and the MGs of the indie-rock generation, the Chicago post-rockers Tortoise....full text |
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