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Crisis Rock from San Francisco.
Songs about whiskey and dark places....
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Sorrow Town Choir-...As it should Be
When I put on this disc, I can close my eyes and see Sorrow Town Choir
frontman Greg Dale bent over half lidded in ecstatic joy and half
awash in tears as his guitar oozes big heaping clouds of bluesy wail.
It’s clear in the lyrical layout herein that this man has run
up some metaphorical tabs, and didn’t always have the cachet
to just walk away and leave a big tip for the help to clean up the
mess. The influential spirits of all the sad and beautiful heavies
from Robert Johnson and Hendrix to Ian Curtis, Kurt Cobain, Stevie
Ray Vaughan and on down are afloat in the dark foreboding spirit of
this record. It’s a sentimental affair steeped in raw rock tradition
that will drag you around by your heart if you so want. Sorrow Town
Choir are perhaps headed to some sort of rock n roll debtor’s
purgatory with all the other bad boys and legends before them. It
becomes apparent they are on a muddy but well won path as Dale’s
gravelly voice intones that his ‘mama don’t keep no pictures
of me’, and it sears the ears as likely true. --Lil' Mike
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With a dirty minimalist sound, Sorrow Town Choir write authentic songs of the "three 'D's", (Dark Beer, Dark Women, and Dark Nights), creating their own idiom of "Deep Crisis Rock."
It is clear that the teenage Rock-n-Roll fantasy that made many a displaced boy pick up a guitar was interrupted by experience imposing its own narrative. One gets the sense that STC is at the mercy of that narrative, which is to say, these f' ers actually KNOW of what they sing.
This is the soul laid bare, devoid of gimmickry and protective hipster irony. The straightjackets in these songs are still being chaffed against and come from hitting the road hard and getting hit back. It is unclear who is winning in that struggle, but there are No postures or affect here, just good somber songs of lessons hard won.
Songs more about distilled spirits and dark days, and less about hugs and kisses that are somehow a cathartic antidote to their own sentiments, what with the sheer depth of their empathy. --Miles Sherwood for cdbaby.com
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