Jolie Holland is a dark angel of song and this is a track from her upcoming album, The Living & The Dead. While the arrangement here is more rock than her previous recordings in the way that Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited was more rock than Another Side of Bob Dylan, her lovely voice is as unique as ever, flirting with jazz, folk and rock a way that only Jolie Holland can pull off. I love this so...
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These were some of the albums that I was digging last year, and I'm still into them: Jolie Holland - The Living and the DeadPortishead, ThirdLaura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim/ My Maniac and I/ Cross Your FingersThe Hold Steady - Stay PositiveDeerhunter - MicrocastleThe Felice Brothers - The Felice BrothersPonytail - Ice Cream SpiritualBon Iver - For Emma, Forever AgoThe Gossip - Live In Liver...
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Here I am in Mexico City, rainy Saturday night, mysteries, old dream sidestreets with no names reeling in, the little street where I'd walked through crowds of gloomy Hobo Indians wrapped in tragic shawls enough to make you cry and you thought you saw knives flashing beneath the folds-lugubrious dreams as tragic as the one of Old Railroad Night where my father sits big of thighs in smoking car ...
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ANTI- is a really diverse, badass record label. Just check out the artists. Michael Franti (of Spearhead), Islands, Tom Waits....on the same label? Some people might be turned off by the diversity, but I love the idea of repping good music regardless of genre. Slowly but surely I think the polars are drifting a little closer. I mean shit, Jim Jones going in over MGMT's "Electric Feel"? Every...
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web site Ms. Jolie Holland 's voice is a powerful instrument, one as identifiable as any in music. Unlike so many others that push jazzy arrangements into pop songs, nothing about the way she twists sounds ever seems too perfect and that's what makes her songs so real and vivid. It's also what makes her songs so rewarding. A great writer knows when to bend the rules of grammar and structure t...
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