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Name .:. The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn?
Genre : Progressive Rock
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : The Afghan Whigs
Label : Bmg Rights Management (Warner)
Titel : How Do You Burn?
Tracks : 10
Playtime : 39:37
Size : 75,93 MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 266kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.I'll Make You See God 04:52
02.The Getaway 03:06
03.Catch A Colt 04:24
04.Jyja 04:29
05.Please, Baby, Please 03:50
06.A Line of Shots 03:28
07.Domino And Jimmy 03:53
08.Take Me There 04:08
09.Concealer 02:42
10.In Flames 04:45
Total 39:37 Min
Hedonism and romance still drive Greg DulliÆs
rockÆnÆroll on his main bandÆs ninth album.
Relationship traumas have always simmered just
beneath the WhigsÆ surface, most notably on
GentlemenÆs 1993 autopsy of an affair. Whatever the
real life skeleton of How Do You Burn?, it mostly
shows love for the rock form itself, and the life it
traditionally offered. The ghosts of the Nineties,
when the Whigs bloomed and American rock last
defined an era, haunt this record. So too the
Seventies, when the Stones dropped clues to an
apparently seedily splendid existence through albums
of implicit debauchery, encyclopaedic Americana and
pop finesse.
Opener ôIÆll Make You See Godö mines Deep Purple for
its fuzz pulse, pummelling drive and the guitarÆs
final dancing skirl across the ramparts. ôThe
Getawayö combines country steel guitar and the
lysergic swirl of The BeatlesÆ (or SiouxsieÆs) ôDear
Prudenceö, the latter influence resurfacing on ôTake
Me Thereö with its sitar-like start, crunching
Revolver drums and melancholy violin saws, while the
title nods to the Jim Thompson novel and Peckinpah
film of doomed bank-robbing lovers. ôWaiting for the
night as I destroy the day,ö Dull sings, trying to
make it to his darling ôup around the bend.ö ôDonÆt
let your money, honey, steal you,ö he then advises
on ôCatch a Coltö, where twin guitars interweave
across the stereo spectrum and squeal as if
throttled.
ôJyjaö starts in the swamp, where the guitarsÆ
insectile chitter miasmically coheres around
creepily stalking keyboards. The lyrics show the
breaks are off, allowing ôwhatever gets you though
the nightö, because ôI know misbehaviour, and I know
what I like/IÆm copping a feel as I reveal my
surreptitious appetiteà look for the feminine, she
is the medicine, I like to know where IÆm going.ö A
staccato keyboard pulse shatters any calm, Van
HuntÆs high harmonies and the guitarsÆ chain-gang
chop combining in a final ecstasy. This is one man
seeking to get past himself and his cares and
limits, bringing lovers and brothers along. In a
coda, Nam copters flutter and warp.
The sultry, Wurlitzer and slide guitar-graced ballad
ôPlease, Baby, Pleaseö comes at similar territory
from a different sonic angle, trying to shuck
ôself-taught illusionö, and echoing the StonesÆ
ôFool to Cryö in the falsetto edge to its pleading
chorus. Another, acoustic ballad, ôConcealerö, is
made for DulliÆs native heartland Midwest, showing
the hip lingo and musical sentiment he deals in:
ôIÆm gonna take you on a mystery ride, hustle for
the corner and slip over the side/Ancient was the
light like a song on the stereo.ö Huck Finn lighting
out for the territory, the BeatsÆ road, street shuck
and jive and the red glows of roach and amplifier in
the dark as a record spins: this is where he aches
to be at.
ôIn FlamesöÆ finale sees a high violin note held
like a thin scream before the WhigsÆ break into a
swagger, the singer ôlooking for a good timeö û but
ônot even I can buy a friendö. DulliÆs gravel howl
tries to tear the track open, though heÆs ôbreathing
ashes in so many waysö, till a guitarÆs thick,
redemptive solo meets him in a majestic end.
What seems at first a sophisticated, familiar sound,
a mature holdover from grungeÆs messy prime, keeps
its secrets a thin layer down, inviting a second
pass with the volume up, as Dulli and his band reach
for the bigger and bolder life this music always
promised.
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