 | Skyclad No Daylights... Nor Heel Taps
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| 3.5 great | Argent | March 8th 09 |
The album opens with Penny Dreadful, one of the album?s stronger tracks. If you?d like a good idea of what this album is like, this would be a good sample. The anti-pop lyrics are satisfying, though the line ?Write your poetry with anger, and then sing it with a passion? is ironic, as Ridley did neither. (To be fair, just a line earlier, he?s far from bland).
Spinning Jenny is, simply put, an excellent song. This version is faster than the original and almost entirely acoustic, and has done away with the syncopation. These are all for the better, and the result is a song that is worth a listen or ten, at the very least. It is viciously catchy and musically satisfying. It?s one of several songs Walkyier wrote about seductive bordering on sexually predatory women. He seems to have a peculiar fascination with them?or maybe he just finds them easy to write double entendres about. There are indeed quite a few in this song.
The Widdershins Jig is different. It was probably the most folk-influenced song on Skyclad?s debut album, pointing the way ahead for the band and for the genre as a whole. It has received more than a superficial facelift, with some rewriting of the music; the addition of acoustic guitar has transformed it from a rather sparse song to one that fully reaches the potential of the notes written more than a decade before. This is also one of Ridley?s most interesting vocal performances, though what the lyrics mean is a mystery to me (who on Earth is ?Wednesday?s child??)
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