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 | Title : Failer
Author : Edwards, Kathleen
Release Date : 20030114
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $14.98
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Editorial Reviews :
This young Canadian singer-songwriter delivers a sucker punch of an American debut. While it may take a few listens for some of the material to sink in, Kathleen Edwards plainly has attitude to burn and a killer band to back it up. As a rootsy artist who sings about sexual attraction and betrayal with a languid breathiness, she inevitably has been tagged a younger Lucinda Williams, but it would make as much sense to describe her as an alt-country Ani DiFranco or a female Ryan Adams. What's most powerful in her music, however, seems to come from a deeper, more personal place than the study of other artists: from the violent climax of 'Six O' Clock News' to the bitter resignation of 'Hockey Skates' to the buoyantly rocking resilience of '12 Bellevue' to the offhand sensuality of 'Westby.' Plainly, she's unconcerned with ruffling feathers, titling one number 'One More Song the Radio Won't Like' and elsewhere asking the musical question 'Do you think your boys' club will crumble just because of a loudmouth girl?' --Don McLeese
Buyer Reviews :
I was intrigued by the advance word on this album in No Depression and elsewhere. Kathleen Edwards is indeed very talented and has a warm, textured voice that does put one in mind of Lucinda Williams. Unfortunately, the songs and the playing on Failer are uneven. There is some very inspired stuff here--if there was any justice in this world the opening cut 'Six O'Clock News' should be a radio hit, with its infectious stumble rhythms and chimey guitar riffs, let alone the intensity of the lyrics. But too often the songs lapse into alt-country cliches and the band, which at its best does have something of the raw energy of Crazy Horse--like the cover sticker says--sometimes sounds uninspired. But I remind myself that 'Car Wheels' wasn't Lucinda's first record, and I'd suggest buying this enjoyable album to foster the career of someone who could really give us a masterpiece one of these days.
(by Rick Alles)
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