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.
ATLAS GENIUS
When It Was Now
Ultraviolet Hippopatomus
Songs For The Reaper
BLACK JOE LEWIS
Tell em What Your Name Is
THERESA ANDERSSON
Street Parade
THE PARTIES
Can't Come Down
Camera Obscura
Let's Get Out Of This Country
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