THE TWILIGHT SINGERS - Powder Burns reviews
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| Drowned in sound |
Redemption has to be hard-won if it’s to mean anything at all, and whether he knows it or not, Greg Dulli has been proponent of this credo for pretty much all of his career.
Back when Dulli was fronting the Afghan Whigs, he was probably the only advocate for action in an alt-rock mainstream which promoted wallowing in misery as an end in itself. While many of his contemporaries whined or raged impotently, Dulli stared hard into the mirror at his cracked reflection and tried to fix what was broken. He didn't always succeed, but damn if he didn't look good trying....full text |
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| The Independent |
| As on 2003's Blackberry Belle, Greg Dulli shines some light on the darker side of his personality on Powder Burns, an album shot through with the afterburn of drug addiction. "I burn, and no one can see me/ And I yearn, 'cos I want that feeling again," he admits in the title track, a slow, smouldering piece saturated with desire, while "Bonnie Brae" skilfully conveys the rapture of narcosis....full text |
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| MAXIM |
| You gotta love the Twilight Singers’ Greg Dulli. By any commercial measure, his career has been in a nosedive since his mid-'90s heyday of fronting the Afghan Whigs, but in what can only be described as a welcome delusion, Dulli still pretends he’s the rock star he never was. Instead of downscaling his albums, he's made them bigger and grander....full text |
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