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• The title is just one affable feature of this third offering from one of Bristol’s gutsiest artists (that’s gutsy as in “wears heart on sleeve” not “wears black lipstick”). A gentler, more sanded-down affair than 2008’s grizzled ‘Sonnets & Singers’ – Matt Sampson’s production dusts off every strum, drumbeat and harmonica puff, whilst maintaining Hall’s beautiful, slouching sadness – its thirteen literate, questioning tracks recall the more Radio 2 moments of Grinderman and Lambchop and, in the macabre and swampy ‘Judas Blues’, no less than Tom Waits. Suzie Hall shares her Patti Smith vocals on the quietly devastating ‘Hard Drinking Man’: “There’s nothing like a bottle to build a dream from a plan…/If you want to love me get out while you still can.” Most magnificent melancholia. (Anna Britten)
www.myspace.com/elliothallmusic Copyright Anna Britten 2011
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