CD of the Week...
Critics and bloggers alike, have been singing their praises for JOLIE HOLLANDs new album, Springtime Can Kill You, which at long last hits stores today. Here's just a sample of what people are saying:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY - "A" rating - On her 2002 demo, Catalpa, and 2004s Escondida, this wandering American singer-songwriter was an original in search of something she hadnt quite found yet. Here she finds it. That exquisitely strange voicepart Billie Holiday, part tipsy gypsy in a Czech beer barbecomes a garden of vinelike phrases and oozing vowels and birdlike whistles. And her band breathes along like a ventilator with brushed drums, pump organ, lap steel, and horns. Proof folk music shouldnt just conjure the past, but also sit down and have a drink with it in the present.
FILTER MAGAZINE - Shes Patsy Cline without the fringe, Billie Holiday minus Tin Pan Alley, and Feist without the Prozac. In Springtime, shes immersed in her realm once again, though shes traded in the Morphine and creepy, hillbilly-chic of Escondida for a sound thats a hint more melodic and just a touch less disturbed. Her screeching fiddle fades out, replaced by the delicate strums of campfires and beach blankets (Adieu False Heart, Stubborn Beast) and the piano-heavy smokiness of rustic bar tunes and warm liquor (Mexican Blue, Mehitibells Blues, the title track). This is still Jolies place, but the hint of a smile in the corners of her mouth makes it that much more welcoming. - Lesley Bargar
GORILLA VS. BEAR (voted blogger of the year at SXSW 2006) - Inexplicably great, and seemingly from another era
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2006/03/springtime-can-kill-you.html
SAID THE GRAMOPHONE - Imagine the instrumental bridge at 0:47 and then again at 1:56 as a play, Springtime. In it, the whistling plays the role of a little boy running, in his clumsy way, down a narrow residential street, dragging his wooden bat across the concrete. The baritone horn, travelling in the opposite direction up the same street, plays the role of a small funeral procession: black suits and white shirts, a hearse, dour faces. Springtime (the sour voice of Jolie Holland) is faced with a difficult choice: should it rain or should it shine? The rim-shots play the rain, falling in slow heavy drops. The boy turns around, runs home. The bereaved are comforted. Springtime laughs, throws down some lightning, kills somebody, eats some ribs, exeunt.
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/2006_04_21.php
Purchase "Springtime Can Kill You" on iTunes or Amazon
JOLIE HOLLAND will be on tour the US this summer:
2006-06-15 Aladdin Theatre Portland OR
2006-06-16 The Nightflight Lounge Bellingham WA
2006-06-17 Triple Door Seattle WA
2006-06-21 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City UT
2006-06-24 Bluebird Theatre Denver CO
2006-06-27 Rhythm Room Phoenix AZ
2006-06-28 Casbah San Diego CA
2006-07-01 Bimbos 365 Club San Francisco CA
2006-07-11 Canal Room New York NY
2006-07-12 Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
2006-07-14 Tin Angel Philadelphia PA
2007-01-19 Orpheum Theatre Sioux Falls SD
For more info, mp3s, etc, check out www.anti.com, MySpace, or www.jolieholland.com
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY - "A" rating - On her 2002 demo, Catalpa, and 2004s Escondida, this wandering American singer-songwriter was an original in search of something she hadnt quite found yet. Here she finds it. That exquisitely strange voicepart Billie Holiday, part tipsy gypsy in a Czech beer barbecomes a garden of vinelike phrases and oozing vowels and birdlike whistles. And her band breathes along like a ventilator with brushed drums, pump organ, lap steel, and horns. Proof folk music shouldnt just conjure the past, but also sit down and have a drink with it in the present.
FILTER MAGAZINE - Shes Patsy Cline without the fringe, Billie Holiday minus Tin Pan Alley, and Feist without the Prozac. In Springtime, shes immersed in her realm once again, though shes traded in the Morphine and creepy, hillbilly-chic of Escondida for a sound thats a hint more melodic and just a touch less disturbed. Her screeching fiddle fades out, replaced by the delicate strums of campfires and beach blankets (Adieu False Heart, Stubborn Beast) and the piano-heavy smokiness of rustic bar tunes and warm liquor (Mexican Blue, Mehitibells Blues, the title track). This is still Jolies place, but the hint of a smile in the corners of her mouth makes it that much more welcoming. - Lesley Bargar
GORILLA VS. BEAR (voted blogger of the year at SXSW 2006) - Inexplicably great, and seemingly from another era
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2006/03/springtime-can-kill-you.html
SAID THE GRAMOPHONE - Imagine the instrumental bridge at 0:47 and then again at 1:56 as a play, Springtime. In it, the whistling plays the role of a little boy running, in his clumsy way, down a narrow residential street, dragging his wooden bat across the concrete. The baritone horn, travelling in the opposite direction up the same street, plays the role of a small funeral procession: black suits and white shirts, a hearse, dour faces. Springtime (the sour voice of Jolie Holland) is faced with a difficult choice: should it rain or should it shine? The rim-shots play the rain, falling in slow heavy drops. The boy turns around, runs home. The bereaved are comforted. Springtime laughs, throws down some lightning, kills somebody, eats some ribs, exeunt.
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/2006_04_21.php
Purchase "Springtime Can Kill You" on iTunes or Amazon
JOLIE HOLLAND will be on tour the US this summer:
2006-06-15 Aladdin Theatre Portland OR
2006-06-16 The Nightflight Lounge Bellingham WA
2006-06-17 Triple Door Seattle WA
2006-06-21 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City UT
2006-06-24 Bluebird Theatre Denver CO
2006-06-27 Rhythm Room Phoenix AZ
2006-06-28 Casbah San Diego CA
2006-07-01 Bimbos 365 Club San Francisco CA
2006-07-11 Canal Room New York NY
2006-07-12 Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
2006-07-14 Tin Angel Philadelphia PA
2007-01-19 Orpheum Theatre Sioux Falls SD
For more info, mp3s, etc, check out www.anti.com, MySpace, or www.jolieholland.com
posted by The Aurora Review at 10:23 PM
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