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Dark Developments

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date October 06, 2008

CD-Charts Position 2
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North Star Deserter

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date September 03, 2007
A quite exquisite release from the ever reliable Constellation label, featuring a host of guests namely all seven members of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, along with Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Chad Jones & Nadia Moss (Frankie Sparo), Eric Craven & Genevieve Heistek (Hangedup), Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Esmerine) and T. Griffin (The Quavers) and quite frankly you can hear their influence, particularly A Silver Mt Zion on tracks such as the epic Everything I Say and You Are Never Alone, both building up storms of sound, dark and yet hopeful, epic and yet easy on the ears along with the near full on post rock assault of Debriefing.
Vic is perhaps sadly better known for the fact that he ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
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Ghetto Bells

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date March 28, 2005
When people like Michael Stipe -"Top 10 finest songwriters today: Vic Chesnutt"- or Tom Waits -"He's fragile like Neil Young, Daniel Johnston and Aaron Neville, songs like strange things you find on the ground"- have this much praise to offer for a fellow musician, I think it is alright for those among us, who long to be moved by great songs, to stop and listen.
Chesnutt new album, Ghetto Bells, is a fine place to start, perhaps a perfect one. At least to me, it conjures up the bare poetic soul of his early classics -"West Of Rome," "Little," the Stipe-produced, or "Is The Actor Happy"- at the same time that it reminds me of the sophisticated musical vision of his amazing 2003's "Silver Lake."
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CD-Charts Position 4
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Silver Lake

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date March 31, 2003
The sound on this album is really different to his other albums. After the 4 track only cd "Left to his own devices" he has gone for a slick full band sound. The album is packed with loads of cool instruments and good songs. Sadly though the album does feel a little dry despite the strong songs. I think the sound doesnt suite his songwritting yet. Looking back on this album ithink it seems like a warm up for his next record "Ghetto Bells". It does have a number of standouts and the album and is really well played by a number of colaborators. Silver lakes feel is really sad and you might feel it after listeing through, but i would recommend this to any fans of his other albums becasue the good songs on this album r really good.

CD-Charts Position 5
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Drunk: Remastered

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date July 05, 2004
The sound on this album is really different to his other albums. After the 4 track only cd "Left to his own devices" he has gone for a slick full band sound. The album is packed with loads of cool instruments and good songs. Sadly though the album does feel a little dry despite the strong songs. I think the sound doesnt suite his songwritting yet. Looking back on this album ithink it seems like a warm up for his next record "Ghetto Bells". It does have a number of standouts and the album and is really well played by a number of colaborators. Silver lakes feel is really sad and you might feel it after listeing through, but i would recommend this to any fans of his other albums becasue the good songs on this album r really good.

CD-Charts Position 6
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About to Choke

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date November 11, 1996
This was a ab bit of an impulse bu. I had heard good things about Vic Chesnutt and read good reviews of this album. None of them were wrong, there are few better songwriters than Vic Chesnutt, add to that the unique style and you have a truly distinctive set of songs. My personal favourites are "Myrtle", "Degenerate" and "Threads" but there isn't really a bad song on this album. The songs are mainly self accompannied with a guitar or keyboards but he does let other musicians join in. Vic's style here is a little like REM, just a little, and his voice is perfect for the songs. Now I'll just have to go and get some more of his albums!

CD-Charts Position 7
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Little

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date July 15, 1996
`Little` is Vic's first album. He's referred to his early songs as "art-therapy", an exorcism of the demons of his middle-Georgia upbringing through his adopted art. Safe in his wheelchair, and in his new Athens G.A. bohemia, Vic was free to vent the bristling inner torment, long suppressed. "I am not victim/I am an atheist" he sings in `Speed Racer` with his devoutly Christian parents now distanced. The resulting catharsis is harrowing, erratic and suitably bare-boned and minimal. It is a relief that it is also offset by Vic's wit (`Soft Picasso` is about a modern love affair, "completely cool and casual/they hardly knew each other was there") and idiosyncratic wordplay, and complemented by his non-repetitive story-telling technique. This is Vic before ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 8
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Dark Developments [VINYL]

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date October 06, 2008
`Little` is Vic's first album. He's referred to his early songs as "art-therapy", an exorcism of the demons of his middle-Georgia upbringing through his adopted art. Safe in his wheelchair, and in his new Athens G.A. bohemia, Vic was free to vent the bristling inner torment, long suppressed. "I am not victim/I am an atheist" he sings in `Speed Racer` with his devoutly Christian parents now distanced. The resulting catharsis is harrowing, erratic and suitably bare-boned and minimal. It is a relief that it is also offset by Vic's wit (`Soft Picasso` is about a modern love affair, "completely cool and casual/they hardly knew each other was there") and idiosyncratic wordplay, and complemented by his non-repetitive story-telling technique. This is Vic before ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Left to His Own Devices

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date April 24, 2001
This newest offering from Vic will probably be especially appealing to longtime fans who enjoyed his solo efforts: Little, Drunk, Is The Actor Happy, and West of Rome. Left To His Own Devices, while not as unified an effort, puts on display a rangy and organic sample of Vic's sounds and sentiments. The second track, "Very Friendly Lighthouses" is superficially a catchy pop tune, but Vic's snarling vocals and surprising lyrics lend it the emotional complexity that sets it apart, "Motor-boating through our lives, only gradually gaining rudimentary naviagational skills, I'm even sometimes offended by very friendly lighthouses." Vic's delivery, squeezing each syllable for its emotional analogue, has to be heard to be understood, or more properly put, felt. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Is the Actor Happy: Remastered

by: Vic Chesnutt

Release Date July 05, 2004
This newest offering from Vic will probably be especially appealing to longtime fans who enjoyed his solo efforts: Little, Drunk, Is The Actor Happy, and West of Rome. Left To His Own Devices, while not as unified an effort, puts on display a rangy and organic sample of Vic's sounds and sentiments. The second track, "Very Friendly Lighthouses" is superficially a catchy pop tune, but Vic's snarling vocals and surprising lyrics lend it the emotional complexity that sets it apart, "Motor-boating through our lives, only gradually gaining rudimentary naviagational skills, I'm even sometimes offended by very friendly lighthouses." Vic's delivery, squeezing each syllable for its emotional analogue, has to be heard to be understood, or more properly put, felt. ... Read More: