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.
Kerosene Stars
Burn The Evidence
ELBOW
build a rocket boys!
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 POUND UNIT
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 POUND UNIT
Jimmy and the Mustangs
Another Round
FIELD MUSIC
Plumb
BOY & BEAR
Harlequin Dream
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