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Peter Doherty
Grace/Wasteland
It’s back to the music in a big way for Peter Doherty as he flies solo for his new CD
called Grace/Wasteland set for release on March 24. The bad boy of The Libertines
and Babyshambles presents a stripped down and seductive trip of songs. The
production by Stephen Smith who has produced The Smiths and Cranberries is
zeroed in the balladeer quality of Doherty’s voice and the fine-tuned strumming
of guitarist Graham Coxon. There is a definite melancholy mood throughout the
first several songs of times gone by. Track four called “A Little Death Around the
Eyes” is lushly wrapped around a string arrangement that tinges with remorse
and is beautifully done.
But has Doherty mellowed? Not if the song called “Through the Looking
Glass” is any indication. The song has a slamming psychedelic beat and deca-
dent lyrics and the sound is almost reminiscent of The Kinks or The Beatles
of the later 1960s. Then, this chameleon steps out in a ragtime and rakish
way with a jazzy little thing called “Sweet By and By.” While on “Sheep Skin
Tearaway,” he blends his vocals with singer Dot Allison and the results
are soft, sentimental and sad all at the same time. This is no in-and-out
musical journey as there are 13 songs presented on Grace/Wasteland. This
mixture of fury, longing and poetry in motion of the past escalates into a passion-
ate sense of aloneness with “Broken Love Song.” Doherty’s skills as a songwriter
really shine throughout… giving the listener a true feeling that this gentleman is
a true romantic at heart, though a touch tragic as well. Is this grace or a wasteland?
Peter Doherty does a remarkable job of pointing out both sides of the spectrum
on his very first solo set of material.
rodgers and hammerstein Frank Sinatra
U2 Allegro – First Complete Recording Pet Shop Boys Seduction:
No Line on the Horizon One of the lost gems in the careers of Ye s Sinatra Sings of Love
Good things are worth waiting for Rodgers and Hammerstein is Allegro. For their latest CD, The Pet Shop Valentine’s Day has come and gone
seems to be the sentiment for U2’s 12th The show initially was created right in Boys have paired up with Xenomania for another year. Yet as far as romance
studio release. Originally slated for an the middle of their most prolific period for Yes. This collaboration presents and love go… Frank Sinatra is the
arrival last year, the label agreed with as a musical team as it was sandwiched what some have called, “a back-to-true king of hearts all year round. Reprise
the band that a couple more songs right after Carousel and right before form” release for our “absolutely fabu- Records has released twenty-two of
should be added to create just what U2 South Pacific in 1947. Now, Allegro in its lous” duo. The first single, “Love Etc.” is his astoundingly seductive love songs
wanted. So, the oven timer goes off on entirety can be heard in this new Sony already creating excitement for the and whether you are in or out of love,
March 3 for No Line on the Horizon. It’s Masterworks Broadway recording new music in the UK. Music Week said Sinatra will cast his spell on you. Several
been five years since a new U2 album created over the past three years. The of the first single, “A combination that songs have been newly remastered
and as Bono put it, We want 2009 to be music and lyrical quality of Rodgers sounds as good on the ear as it does on and there is also an alternative version
our year, so we’re going to start making and Hammerstein is quite simply some paper. Pet Shop Boys and Xenomania rarely heard of “My Funny Valentine”
an impression very early on.” Produced of the best ever created in American get the new album campaign off to a included. Noted Sinatra historian Bill
by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve musical theatre. This two-CD record- very strong start.” It’s been a long road Zehme puts it best, “He was, of course,
Lillywhite, all formidable musicians in ing is a must-have to discover even since “West End Girls” in 1986 and now nothing less than the human embodi-
their own right, the new material has more in the beauty of their partnership it’s time to say a resounding “Yes” to Neil ment of a curled finger that signaled
been described as “amazing and a little and their intoxicating sounds of music. Tennant and Chris Lowe for their tenth only, inarguably: ‘Come here, baby…’”
out there.” Release date: 03/03/09. Available now. studio album. Release date: 03/23/09. Available now.
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