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.
KRISTEN BUSSANDRI
Diamonds to Dust
Yo La Tengo
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
THE PRETENDERS
Break Up The Concrete
Toad The Wet Sprocket
New Constellation
UMPHREY'S MCGEE
The Bottom Half
The Modern Savage
Unwilling Participants
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