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Music : Through the Trees
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Through the Trees by: Handsome Family |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 7893970020252 Label: Carrot Top Manufacturer: Carrot Top Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Carrot Top Release Date: January 26, 1998 Studio: Carrot Top Sales Rank: 83315 MPN: 20 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The Handsomes are a true one-off with genuinely barmy pharmaceutical lyrics written by Rennie Sparks delivered wistfully in the baritone of husband Brett while banjo, melodica, (lots of) autoharp and piano fill out the soundscape. On their third full-length record, the Chicago-based pair expand on their warped country palette to embrace and twist virtually every form of American roots music. "Weightless Again" is spooky and folky; "Where The Birch Trees Lean" is a potential showtune played at a tranquillised pace, "The Woman Downstairs" bears the warped jazz of Tom Waits, "Last Night I Went Out Walking" is an alternative cowboy lament while the standout tracks--"Cathedrals" and the surreal tearjerker of "Giant Of Illinois"--owe much to no-nonsense 1950s country. Creepy and weird, Through The Trees is also inventive as anything. --Tim Perry Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Down in the ground or in sky like a woman,s arms....the dichotomy of The Handsome Family.Like many people, i,m sure ,my introduction to The Handsome Family was through a free CD given away with Uncut magazine. The song "Weightless Again"- the first track on this album- is one of those tunes that once it lodges in the cerebellum is almost impossible to remove. The lyrics speak with genuine pathos about a deep seated human need for the swaddled comfort of the womb- equating modern alienation to native Americans losing the ability to make fire. As the song says "This is why people OD on pills/ And jump from the Golden Gate bridge /Anything to feel weightless again". It also encapsulates one of the bands primary themes-death - a subject they always approach with dark humour and empathy. Through The Trees was originally released ... Read More: Rating: - Through the trees...I bought this album having heard a cover of 'weightless again', not really knowing what to expect... Well, I was surprised but not dissapointed- Handsome family plays music like nothing i've ever heard...unsettlingling lyrics make for *interesting* listening if a little depressing at times; and boy can they conjour up a mood! weightless again is worth 10 of any cover, and each track seems to tap into a different genre, be it jazz, blues, bluegrass, or the obvious country! Rating: - The horror, the horror...To enter the macabre world of the Handsome Family is like walking into an episode of Twin Peaks directed by Tim Burton. On the surface all seems to be normal, but dig a little deeper and you'll find a world of harsh judgements, despair, madness and isolation. S Club 7 this ain't. From the first track onwards (Weightless Again) the Family set out their bleak manifesto. The line 'this is why people OD on pills and jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, anything to be weightless again' really hits hard. Husband and wife Brett and Rennie Sparks are to put it mildly a little eccentric. Brett was a devout Southern Baptist and Professor until he met Rennie, a sassy yet erudite New Yorker. They began collaborating on material embued with ... Read More: |
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