2004-02-24
Australian musician Paul Kelly delivers two discs worth of analysis about love and relationships. Although this all starts out and ends with instrumentals, the rest of the collection moves from folk-based love triangle to mopey rocker to pop-sounding plea and back again.
Call it a little Thesaurus of the Heart from Down Under.
Some songs are poetic, a few are sappy; some are brazen, others are thoughtful. Sounds like an attempt to write the Story of Love.
Did he succeed?
Give it a listen.
BODEANS
Indigo Dreams
SUBDUDES
Behind the Levee
SON VOLT
American Central Dust
SAM SMITH
In The Lonely Hour
Yo La Tengo
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
The Age of the Understatement
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