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| 4.0 excellent | Etrius | May 25th 10 |
The Walkabouts is a Seattle-based band which enjoys a much bigger fan base in Europe than in the US. Band members are Chris Eckman and his brothers Curt and Grant along with singer Carla Torgerson.
Chris Eckman shares the vocal part with Torgerson. Eckman has a deep voice which isn´t too formidable but used effectively to set the tone - you could compare his voice with Nick Cave´s if you like. You could say that Eckman´s voice expresses despair whereas Torgerson rich, beautiful voice stands for hope. Both evoke frailty, bitterness and longing but with a glimpse of hope, positivity and compassion which does the trick for me.
The music is basically chamber pop with a slight folk element, beautiful strings arrangements and a noctural touch. The Tindersticks and Portishead come to mind.
The lyrics deal basically with the loneliness of people in a metroplis standing in one´s own light and the longing for happiness.
Just when things get too desperate there´s a subtle change in mood for some bittersweet moments of aspiration.
Standouts are pretty much every song on the first half of the cd. "Prayer for you" reminds me in it´s menacing intensity of "This is hardcore" by Pulp. In the second half the quality drops just an inch but is still good.
Overall i rate this a solid 4. I purchased this CD in 1997 and still enjoy it in the right mood.
Please consider that this is my first review and that english is not my native language.
I just thought it a shame that this band was not in the database so i upped it and came along with a review.
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| 4.5 superb | Lucman | October 7th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | doofy | September 14th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | elvis7 | November 23rd 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Host78 | March 20th 12 |
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