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Constipated Monkey Smegma
...Presents...
Sally Timms-In the World of Him
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│ RiPPER.: Team CMS DATE RiPPED..: 04-01-2005 │
│ LAbEL..: n/a DATE RELEaSEd: 00-00-2004 │
│ ENCOdER: LAME RELEaSE SiZE.: 45,1 MB │
│ BiTrAtE: VBR kbps TRACkS.......: 09 │
│ MOdE...: Joint-Stereo SoURCe.......: CDDA │
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│ A chilling and yet chill album blending rock, country, │
│ electronic, and some ambient shit thrown in for good │
│ measure. │
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│ What Pitchfork said: │
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│ As a longtime member of the tireless Mekons, Sally Timms │
│ is pretty much bound by oath to mingle genres and confound │
│ expectations. It's a creed that has served her well both │
│ within the group and without it, leading to successes like │
│ the Mekons' pioneering alt-country album Fear and Whiskey │
│ and her well-received 1999 Bloodshot release Cowboy │
│ Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos. But it also │
│ means she's been involved in her fair share of │
│ frustrating, undigested head-scratchers, and │
│ unfortunately, In the World of Him seems destined to join │
│ their ranks. │
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│ The gimmick this time around is that almost all of these │
│ nine songs are covers written by male songwriters and sung │
│ from a man's perspective. (The sole exception is the Timms │
│ original "Little Tommy Tucker", which is sung from the │
│ perspective of the now-grown nursery rhyme character.) │
│ Although gender-bending by now can no longer be considered │
│ a groundbreaking device, this approach on paper would │
│ nevertheless appear to be at least somewhat ripe with │
│ possibility. │
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│ Even from within these masculine parameters, however, │
│ Timms has made some perplexing choices in song selection. │
│ For one, she maintains the Mekons' regrettable tradition │
│ of endlessly re-recording songs from their own back │
│ catalog. The most baffling example is yet another version │
│ of the Mekons' "Corporal Chalkie", a fine, ironic anti-war │
│ dirge to be sure, but one that just appeared in a │
│ virtually identical arrangement on the group's Punk Rock │
│ album earlier this year. Timms takes on Jon Langford's │
│ "Sentimental Marching Song" and the Mekons' "Bomb" also │
│ risk sounding overly familiar to her attentive fanbase, │
│ and their inclusion can't help but make In the World of │
│ Him feel rather uninventive and skimpy. │
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│ Elsewhere on the album, Timms covers a tasteful but │
│ eccentric collection of songwriters that includes Mark │
│ Eitzel, Johnny Dowd, and Kevin Coyne. In the process, she │
│ abandons virtually all traces of either the Mekons' │
│ pub-punk or her previous C&W leanings in favor of an icy │
│ minimalism rather reminiscent of Nico's The Marble Index │
│ (although Timms' crystalline vocal timbre couldn't be more │
│ different from Nico's guttural delivery). On Eitzel's │
│ "God's Eternal Love", Timms' angelic pipes are supported │
│ by little more than a smeary haze of electronic drone, │
│ while funhouse keyboards give Dowd's "139 Hernalser │
│ Gurtel" a woozy cabaret tilt. Perhaps her most effective │
│ performance, and the one where she most obviously improves │
│ upon the original, is a version of Ryan Adams' "Fools We │
│ Are as Men", which she sings in a beautiful, urgent hush │
│ accompanied only by acoustic guitar and accordion. │
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│ The adventurous cast of songwriters Timms has selected │
│ provide the album a wide depth of lyrical flavor. It's │
│ worth noting that none of these tracks specifically │
│ address love or sex, concentrating instead on spiritual │
│ self-doubt, vulnerability, and skewering lunkheaded │
│ militaristic machismo. Though several tracks here-- │
│ particularly her rendition of Coyne's "I'm Just a Man"-- │
│ do give the listener compelling, timely interpretations of │
│ the male psyche, one is unlikely to get a very broad or │
│ accurate view of contemporary manhood by studying the work │
│ of such iconoclastic lyricists. If In the World of Him is │
│ intended to be Timms' comprehensive portrait of modern men │
│ or what it's like to live among them, one can't help but │
│ wish she had taken a few more adventurous risks within the │
│ extensive male songbook. │
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│ │ # │ Track Name │ Time │ │
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│ │ 01 │ Sentimental Marching Song │ 03:58 │ │
│ │ 02 │ Corporal Chalkie │ 03:39 │ │
│ │ 03 │ God's Eternal Love │ 04:32 │ │
│ │ 04 │ High Dosage │ 03:01 │ │
│ │ 05 │ 139 Hernalser Gurtel │ 01:39 │ │
│ │ 06 │ Fools We Are as Men │ 04:03 │ │
│ │ 07 │ Bomb │ 03:24 │ │
│ │ 08 │ I'm Just A Man │ 04:26 │ │
│ │ 09 │ Little Tommy Tucker │ 04:45 │ │
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│ │ │ Total │ 33:27 min │
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