| Product Summary | | Label: One Little Indian Records | | UPC: 00827954040124 | | Release Date: 10/14/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60615731 | | Item#: M3XMTU | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Martin Eden ~ The Twilight Singers |  | | 2. Esta Noche ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 3. Teenage Wristband ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 4. St. Gregory ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 5. Killer, The ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 6. Decatur St. ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 7. Papillon ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 8. Follow You Down ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 9. Feathers ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 10. Fat City (Slight Return) ~ The Twilight Singers | | | 11. Number Nine ~ The Twilight Singers | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Twilight Singers: Greg Dulli (vocals, guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Mellotron, keyboards, drums); Petra Hayden (vocals, violin); Apollonia Kotero, Mark Lanegan (vocals); Mathias Schneeberger (guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet); Jon Skibic, Mike Napolitano (guitar); Mike Sullivan, Scott Ford (bass); Greg Wieczor (drums, percussion, background vocals). | | Additional personnel includes: Alvin Youngblood Hart. | | Producers: Mike Napolitano, Mathias Schneeberger, Greg Dulli. | | Personnel: Jon Skibic (vocals, guitar, banjo); Greg Dulli (vocals, guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Mellotron, keyboards, drums); Petra Haden (vocals, violin, trumpet); Greg Wieczorek (vocals, drums, percussion); Nikki Crawford, Apollonia Kotero, Steve Myers, Mark Lanegan (vocals); Mathias Scheeberger (guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, Mellotron); Mike Napolitano (guitar); Jesse Tobias (E-bow); Kamasi Washington (saxophone); Chris Gray (trumpet); John Lampkin (trombone); Rick Steff (Clavinet, organ); Chris Phillips, Matt Hergert, Stanton Moore, Brian Young (drums). | | Audio Mixers: George Drakoulias; Mathias Scheeberger; Manolo; Angel Fernandez. | | Photographers: Rene Alcebo; Chris Cuffaro. | | Greg Dulli returns to his Twilight Singers project with the atmospheric Blackberry Belle. This time around, the dirtily soulful self-hater/lover is joined at one point or another by multi-instrumentalist Mathias Schneeberger, guitarist Alvin Youngblood Hart, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, the incomparable Petra Haden, and Mark Lanegan, who takes main vocal duties for the shadowy devil of closer "Number Nine." Apollonia even makes an appearance as a backing vocalist for a few tracks. Somehow, even with its grainy appropriations of trip-hop (especially "Teenage Wristband," which sounds like a holdover from the first half of the Singers' 2000 debut), everything on Blackberry Belle begins to eventually sound like Leonard Cohen. The moody black-and-white palm tree cover art is no joke -- this is an album that views sunlight through the cracked blinds of a claustrophobic hotel lounge. "There's a riot goin' on/Inside of me/Won't you come inside/See what I see?," "I think we're lost, don't worry/I've been here before," "If you're in trouble then I'll follow" -- it's melancholy and death wishes in the first person here, and love only exists as a means to a bitter end. These are themes that Dulli has made a habit of discussing; nevertheless, they're made newly potent over Blackberry's dusky, shifting rhythms. Things are too scary to be danceable, although the album definitely has a groove. "Decatur St." mixes Massive Attack with Afghan Whigs, while "Follow You Down" is shimmering and stripped-down, with only frail guitar and piano to guide its death wish lyrics. Drummer Moore injects some funk into "Feathers," and "Esta Noche" finds the inherent beat in a European dial tone. Quietly building opener "Martin Eden" might make the defining statement of the record with its initial lines: "Black out the windows/It's party time." Cohen's melancholy is coursing through Dulli's tortured veins; it's good to see that he's still getting top-notch talent to aid in the nightly bloodletting. ~ Johnny Loftus |
| | Artist Overview | | Having established himself as a dark, gritty songwriter and charismatic presence in Afghan Whigs, Greg Dulli's follow-up band, Twilight Singers, conceived shortly before the Whigs' 2001 dissolution, showcases all this with slightly smoother edges. With atmospheric production and a more soulful, bluesy bent, Dulli surrounds himself with an eclectic array of collaborators (Mark Lanegan, Apollonia ) and doesn't back off from experimentation (a slow jam of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," anyone?). The consistent thread is Dulli's sultry voice and fearless lyrical exploration of the dark side of human relationships. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/14/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 401 | | Label : One Little Indian (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00827954040124 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (12/25/03-1/8/04, p.121)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...[Dulli's] placed his transcendentally dark songwriting in a host of shadowy settings....This is old-school album rock, each fragment linking to tell a story, every nuance begging to be savored."Spin (2/04, pp.99-101)
- "[I]t's the quieter moments, peppered with funeral-parlor humor, that really resonate." - Grade: A- Q (12/03, p.139)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Few musicians do twitchy noir snapshots quite so well..." CMJ (10/20/03, p.8)
- "...A tinkle on the piano, lazy beats and low vocals build and explode into full-blown rock orchestrations, joined by Dulli's unmistakable wail, all on an album that hits one amazing crescendo after another..." |
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