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.
RICHARD SWIFT
The Atlantic Ocean
LONELADY
Nerve Up
JASON MRAZ
We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
FUTURE CLOUDS AND RADAR
Future Clouds and Radar
Nick Lowe
Jesus of Cool (reissue)
K.D. LAND AND THE SISS BOOM BANG
SING IT LOUD
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