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Confessions of a Teenage Lycanthrope [Import]
Tavener: To a Child Dancing in the Wind & Birtwistle: Entr'Actes and Sappho Fragments
Stravinsky: Der Feuervogel/Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Soho Lounge Heat, Vol. 2: Funky Lounge Breaks from the 70's [Import]
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Greatest Hits, Vol.1
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major/Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A major
The Complete Recordings 1929-1941 [Box set]
Sketches from the Book of Life [Import]
Serious Times [Explicit Lyrics]
Witness: What a Mighty God - Spirituals and Gospels for Chorus
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On her 1975 debut, Smith was full of piss and vinegar, seriously interested in bringing together high art and low three-chord rock & roll. As a result, her free-form poetry meshes with covers of "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances," and the album centers on two long, highfalutin' pieces, including the three-part suite (warning! warning! art!) "Land." (The CD version appends a messy live take on The Who's "My Generation.") Led by Richard Sohl's piano, the arrangements don't exactly rock, and some of Smith's songwriting gets buried in its stylistic affectations (there's a great song under "Redondo Beach"'s fake reggae). But the point of Horses was Smith's persona of volume, cunning and exile, and it comes through distinctly. --Douglas Wolk