Editorial Reviews
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Music Review
Firebird & Petrouchka Arranged for Organ
Music: Big Bass Bomb [CD-single]
From Saturday to Sunday, Vol. 3
East Wind: Chickenshack Best [Original recording remastered] [Import]
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Shivaree's quaintly titled debut, I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump, offered a respectable run through self-deprecating Americana. But on her sophomore disc, singer-songwriter Ambrosia Parsley takes a seismic leap forward. Embracing distorted electronic breakbeats, quietly tuned gothic ornaments, and heavy-lidded torch songs, she carries out a metamorphosis similar to the one that produced Radiohead's masterpiece, OK Computer. She comes on like Billie Holiday on the rustic techno-folk of "Wagers," blooms into Joni Mitchell on the soulful "After the Prince and the Showgirl," and mixes sugary doo-wop harmonies with a grim sonic landscape on "John, 2/14." This is a weird and languidly addictive record. --Aidin Vaziri
Album Description
Eagerly anticipated followup to 1999's 'I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump'. A laidback mixture of lo-fi blues songs in the same vein as Tom Waits & Sparklehorse. Special guests include Blue Note legend Don Byron & Scott Minor from Sparklehorse. 2002.