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.
BAND OF HEATHENS
THE DOUBLE DOWN- LIVE IN DENVER VOL 1 & 2
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
The Age of the Understatement
ELLIOT SMITH
New Moon
BOWERY
Our Love Is A Ghost
Sarah Jane Scouten
When the Bloom Falls from The Rose
LIGHTS AT SEA
Palace Walls
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