― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)
William, if you think "Into The Blood" is great wait til you hear "Lacuna", "Shoot", "Paris" and "Monument" (all off The Disconnection), and indeed "Message To Apollo", "The Waves" and "On Leaving" (all off The First Blood Mystery).
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)
I've listened to 'Lacuna' a few times (off yr recommendation - see, I was listening!), and not quite sure that I'm loving it yet, but I do tend to recommend albums to people off the basis of just the one song. And 'Into My Blood' is most definitely a goer.
Even if I do keep mixing it up with Cathy Davey a bit.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)
(xpost - when I heard her album Cathy Davey struck me as someone who'd listened first to Tom Waits and then to Carina Round, so had a really good idea of what kind of music she should be making but without the voice or presence to really pull it off.)
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)
I honestly have no idea how I could've overlooked something so good all of last year. "Into My Blood" is, as has been mentioned several times above, quite a brilliant track. I'm still wrapping my head around the rest of the album, but I haven't been turned off by anything I've heard yet. Probably the best 99 cents I've spent in quite a while.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)
so what are people's thoughts on her? I liked Disconnection but it seemed too PJ Harvey at the time. Then she did some album with Glen Ballard that was about as generic as can be. And now she's in Puscifer. She had an ep a few years ago "things you should know' that was quite good. And the new album, what I heard of it, is great.
Drawbacks: she often sounds like other people. The opening track on Tigermending ('pick up the phone') could be mistaken for a Stina Nordenstam song. Then there were the PJ Harvey things earlier in her career. She works with suspect people like Glen Ballard. But then Eno worked on the new album as well. But so did Billy Corgan. She is very pretty: which could lead you to believe that she has gotten along partly based on looks and sounding a lot like other people.
On the other hand: who cares about any of that because the songs sound really good most of the time.
― akm, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:42 (fourteen years ago)