Living & The Dead (Dig)
仕様 | 価格 | 新品 | 中古品 |
CD, CD, インポート, 2008/10/9
"もう一度試してください。" | CD, インポート | ¥1,335 | ¥1,129 |
CD, インポート, 2019/12/13
"もう一度試してください。" | インポート |
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曲目リスト
1 | Mexico City |
2 | Corrido Por Buddy |
3 | Palmyra |
4 | You Painted Yourself in |
5 | Fox in It's Hole |
6 | Your Big Hands |
7 | Sweet Loving Man |
8 | Love Henry |
9 | The Future |
10 | Enjoy Yourself |
商品の説明
With a vocal style hailed by the Village Voice as "sultry and sweet, despairing and lonely", Jolie has experimented in the past with various settings for her unique, jazz-inflected voice. This time working with such collaborators as M. Ward and Marc Ribot, she has embraced both the rocking side of her roots and the compositional possibilities of the studio, multi-tracking her voice for the first time. The results have intensified the evocative moodiness of her music but also brought out a rollicking looseness.
他の国からのトップレビュー

Philtheroach
5つ星のうち5.0
Love it
2018年2月20日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Must have addition.

S. Dixon
5つ星のうち5.0
Unabashedly Delicious
2008年10月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This is Jolie Holland's most listener-friendly album to date. (And I love everything she's ever done.) She has emerged from the haunting darkness of "Springtime Can Kill You" to an exuberant, confident, rockin' masterpiece. I have been playing it continuously since I got it; I'm so grateful to have music like this to fall in love with.

J. S. Carr
5つ星のうち4.0
Up there with the best
2008年11月24日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I wanted to write in response to the other reviews which almost put me off buying this album which would have made me miss out on a really great cd - more consistently listenable than her others in my opinion. I have been a fan for a long time, initially due to her association with the Be Good Tanyas, and was a bit disappointed at the idea she had not delivered the same beguiling lyrics and unique style as on her previous 3 albums. Although there are less of the sparse and stripped-down guitar/vocals campfire songs than on her first album, Catalpa, The Living and The Dead is a fine collection of accessible and beautifully melodic country/blues songs that get better with every listen. The comments about the laughing/incidental sounds that should have been taken out only really apply to the last song, which does sound like it was put on for a joke and will probably have most people reaching for the skip function, but there is no sense of that in the other 9 songs before that. Jolie Holland's voice is always going to be something to either love or hate, with her yowling Southern pronunciation, the haunting old-time quality of music and the frequent inclusion of whistling on her songs, but I think if you do like her voice then you will love her music, which on this album involves alot more electric bluesy guitars and bass than any of her previous albums. On some tracks she is positively rocking out after some really beautifully sparse music in the past, but it all sounds genuine and her love of traditional country and blues music is clear and not just a jump onto the bandwagon. On one of the stand-out tracks, Fox In Its Hole, she veers very close to sounding like Cat Power from around her Moon Pix period. My other favourite is The Future, in which she tempts us to 'come on and wake up with me' and indeed its a song would be perfect for those hazy moments just after waking and deciding to stay in bed just that little bit longer - ah! If you like the Be Good Tanyas, Cat Power, Pieta Brown aswell as more classic country singers I think you would not be disappointed. Her live gigs are also very warm and unpretentious so try to catch her on tour for a real treat.

Steve
5つ星のうち5.0
Brilliant, as Usual
2008年11月21日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
At first I was a little put off by the seemingly less unique sound of this CD. I was wrong. Yes, it's a little more accessible, but it has depth and keeps growing on every listen. She's truly one of the essential American artists of this generation. May she continue to write and sing.

Sporus
5つ星のうち4.0
Mixed emotions...
2008年11月3日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
For those who don't know her, you might put Jolie Holland somewhere inside a triangle marked out by Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits and Karen Dalton.
She writes consciously poetic, freshly aphoristic lyrics ("Everything minus one is everything"); enjoys twisting odd sounds out of (mostly country) instruments; and sings in an almost parodic southern voice that is both awkwardly naive yet breathtaking in its harmonic intelligence.
Her first album, 'Catalpa', was famously a demo tape complete with coughs and pauses. 'The Living and the Dead' also includes some swallowed vocals and concludes with a version of Carl Sigman's 1949 song "Enjoy Yourself (it's later than you think)" where Holland burst repeatedly into laughter. Maybe because she's amused at the process of double tracking, which she does here for the first time. But while the 'honest' flaws on 'Catalpa' were affecting, on this her fourth album they are disquieting.
Holland's comparative success has given her access to lauded musicians (M. Ward, Marc Ribot); but as she increasingly transcends into the music industry (and what else can she do?) it stretches the integrity that made her earlier albums so compelling. Keeping mistakes on a recording is no way to sustain it. It's even patronising.
While Holland's earlier work could misfire you always felt the experiment had been worth it. Here there are a few tracks - such as the clumsy "You painted yourself in" - that you feel were written to meet a contractual timetable. Wrongly or rightly this makes the emotionalism of songs like "Corrido por buddy" (about a friend of a friend who died of drugs) seem suspiciously forced. The title track IS addictive though; while "Fox in its Hole" is an absolute stand-out.
Holland could yet be one of the most important singer/songwriters of her generation; but 'The living and the dead' feels like a transitional album. Her fans will buy it on a reflex. First-timers might do better to try 'Escondida' or 'Springtime can Kill You'. It's more than worth it.
She writes consciously poetic, freshly aphoristic lyrics ("Everything minus one is everything"); enjoys twisting odd sounds out of (mostly country) instruments; and sings in an almost parodic southern voice that is both awkwardly naive yet breathtaking in its harmonic intelligence.
Her first album, 'Catalpa', was famously a demo tape complete with coughs and pauses. 'The Living and the Dead' also includes some swallowed vocals and concludes with a version of Carl Sigman's 1949 song "Enjoy Yourself (it's later than you think)" where Holland burst repeatedly into laughter. Maybe because she's amused at the process of double tracking, which she does here for the first time. But while the 'honest' flaws on 'Catalpa' were affecting, on this her fourth album they are disquieting.
Holland's comparative success has given her access to lauded musicians (M. Ward, Marc Ribot); but as she increasingly transcends into the music industry (and what else can she do?) it stretches the integrity that made her earlier albums so compelling. Keeping mistakes on a recording is no way to sustain it. It's even patronising.
While Holland's earlier work could misfire you always felt the experiment had been worth it. Here there are a few tracks - such as the clumsy "You painted yourself in" - that you feel were written to meet a contractual timetable. Wrongly or rightly this makes the emotionalism of songs like "Corrido por buddy" (about a friend of a friend who died of drugs) seem suspiciously forced. The title track IS addictive though; while "Fox in its Hole" is an absolute stand-out.
Holland could yet be one of the most important singer/songwriters of her generation; but 'The living and the dead' feels like a transitional album. Her fans will buy it on a reflex. First-timers might do better to try 'Escondida' or 'Springtime can Kill You'. It's more than worth it.