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The Real Tuesday Weld
The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid
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AMG Review of The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid
Adam Greenberg
All Music GuideOn his second album for Six Degrees, the Real Tuesday Weld (aka Stephen Coates) takes up his alter ego of the Clerkenwell Kid in full form. The fare is primarily in the realm of allads, but thoroughly built upon sampling, looping, and keyboard arrangements. The end result is in many cases like a more contemporary Serge Gainsbourg, with beats and grooves mixed in here and there. It's a relatively airy affair, if somewhat somber at times. It's a fitting mood for what would seem to be an album motivated in large part by lost love and reminiscence. The entirety of the album is slick and well engineered, with nary a beat out of place. Not quite at the over-produced level of ultra-lounge, but somewhere between retro-lounge and ultra-lounge at least. Very nice ambient music for the background of a long drive.
Rain. Some people need it. Other people don't.
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I love rain. I know Ann Peebles might argue with me on this fact but I love the rain. I like walking in it. I like getting caught in it. I love the sound of it. I checked my iTunes and I've got around 60 songs about the rain. More songs by Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix than any other artist. That might be because I have more songs by them in general. Who knows. It's been raining here in t...
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