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...Apart from making old skills more efficient, what has most rekindled craftsmanship across Europe is the growing market for something distinctive in a world of sameness. It is this, together with newfound respect for those who made great works without great machines, that has Thom Price, a 31-year-old American, working in a squero, a traditional Venetian gondola workshop. Or that finds Australian enologist David Baverstock producing award-winning wines from old grape varieties found only in Portugal...
Simple the album is not. Wowed by electronic-rock innovators Bjork and Thom Yorke, Farrell spent years learning how to program computers, spinning turntables as a club DJ and then applying these skills to create what he calls "sexy party jah music." Ambient pulsations and digital blips bubble alongside more familiar rock instrumentation on the CD, which also continues his fascination with swirling raga rhythms and quasi-mystical lyrics. "I took my cues from Bob Marley, because his sounds are warm and organic and inspired," says Farrell. "If the songs get too cerebral or wordy, you can't kick with...
...rebellious, it's archaic." That is the smartest thing anyone has ever written about Eminem. Too bad other magazines gave kudos to the year's most visible bigot. Thank you, thank you, for not including Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP on your list of the 10 best albums. THOM RENTON BRITTANY Seattle...
...been looking for: a little happiness and some genuine love. Her vocals seem more relaxed, her guitar a bit less austere and the tunes somewhat more welcoming. On "Big Exit," Harvey meditates on human suffering, but concludes with "I'm immortal when I'm with you." Radiohead's Thom Yorke accompanies her vocals on the flowing duet "This Mess We're In," a sweetly sexual exchange. Finally, Stories ends with "We Float," possibly the most elegant ballad she has ever written. With P.J. Harvey, you never know when her happiness will give in to dissatisfaction, but you do know this...
...difficult to believe this mid-career blossoming, as she calls it, just happened. The songs sell her out. Stories opens with the glorious Big Exit, which peaks around the chorus, "Baby baby, ain't it true/ I'm immortal when I'm with you." A duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke asks, "Do you remember the first kiss?" and is one of this year's most captivating love songs. Want more proof? Her previous album was titled Is This Desire?; Stories has a track called This Is Love. Good...