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██▓▀ Album......[ The London Book Of The Dead ▀▓██
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▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2007-11-05 ████▄ ▀
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█▓ 01 Blood Sugar Love 3:15 ▓█
█▓ 02 The Decline And Fall Of The Clerkenwell 2:59 ▓█
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█▓ 03 It's A Wonderful Li(F)E 3:09 ▓█
█▓ 04 Cloud Cuckooland 3:15 ▓█
█▓ 05 Kix 3:03 ▓█
█▓ 06 Love Sugar Blood 1:07 ▓█
█▓ 07 I Loved London 3:06 ▓█
█▓ 08 I Believe 3:45 ▓█
█▓ 09 Song For William 1:06 ▓█
█▓ 10 Waltz For One 1:53 ▓█
█▓ 11 Ruth Roses And Revolvers 3:51 ▓█
█▓ 12 Dorothy Parker Blue 4:52 ▓█
█▓ 13 Last Words 4:54 ▓█
█▓ 14 Into The Trees 1:19 ▓█
█▓ 15 Bringing The Body Back Home 5:48 ▓█
█▓ 16 Apart 1:27 ▓█
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█░█ The first thing that strikes you about any album █░█
█░█ by Stephen Coates (a.k.a. The Real Tuesday Weld) █░█
█░█ is the fact that every element in his █░█
█░█ compositions seems to be drawn from sources many █░█
█░█ decades old. The second thing that strikes you is █░█
█░█ that his music sounds completely new. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ For Coates, the breakthrough in his professional █░█
█░█ journey came in the form of a pair of surreal █░█
█░█ dreams in which he was visited by the legendary █░█
█░█ English music hall singer Al Bowlly and the late █░█
█░█ actress Tuesday Weld. These experiences convinced █░█
█░█ him to focus on a career in music and eventually █░█
█░█ led to the recording of an EP (The Valentine EP), █░█
█░█ which would be followed shortly by the █░█
█░█ full-length When Cupid Meets Psyche. His █░█
█░█ sophomore album and debut on Six Degrees is a █░█
█░█ deeply complex and lovely full-length CD titled █░█
█░█ I, Lucifer. The album is a conceived soundtrack █░█
█░█ to Glen Duncan's (Coates' friend and former █░█
█░█ flatmate) book of the same name about the Devil's █░█
█░█ take on humanity. Coates's follow-up release on █░█
█░█ Six Degrees, The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid, █░█
█░█ continued to develop what Coates has come to call █░█
█░█ his "antique beat" sound, putting modern █░█
█░█ technology to the task of creating new music out █░█
█░█ of a kaleidoscopic array of old sound sources. █░█
█░█ The sound of The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid █░█
█░█ was somewhat different from that of its █░█
█░█ predecessor, but the modus operandi remained █░█
█░█ basically the same and no one would ever mistake █░█
█░█ it for anything other than a Real Tuesday Weld █░█
█░█ album. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Which brings us to his latest, and anxiously █░█
█░█ awaited, album for the Six Degrees label. The █░█
█░█ London Book of the Dead may sound at first like a █░█
█░█ startlingly morose title, but in fact it's more █░█
█░█ whimsically humorous than morbid. It refers to █░█
█░█ the Bardo Thodol (or Tibetan Book of the Dead), █░█
█░█ which describes the passage of the soul from the █░█
█░█ end of one life to the beginning of another. "I █░█
█░█ thought it would be funny if there were a book █░█
█░█ like that for the English," says Coates. "The █░█
█░█ album felt like that to me û a way of moving from █░█
█░█ one state to another, and all set against the █░█
█░█ backdrop of this city." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Amongst the whimsy and humor are lyrical concerns █░█
█░█ drifting between such weighty topics as death, █░█
█░█ religious faith, honesty, drugs, and disease. The █░█
█░█ songs are informed in part by Coates's own recent █░█
█░█ passage through several significant events: "Last █░█
█░█ year I became a father, and then two weeks later █░█
█░█ my own father died," he says. "So I was in this █░█
█░█ kind of psychic spin between birth and death, and █░█
█░█ this album came out of that in some way." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ But even when the going gets dark and █░█
█░█ introspective, there's an element of musical █░█
█░█ whimsy that is never far from the surface. █░█
█░█ Consider, for example, "Kix" û a gently humorous █░█
█░█ expression of romantic realism ("I don't get my █░█
█░█ kicks out of you/I don't feel the way I used to") █░█
█░█ in which he praises the object of his affection █░█
█░█ for her qualities but acknowledges that drugs and █░█
█░█ drink now offer him more of a charge than she █░█
█░█ does. It's ultimately a rather bitter song, but █░█
█░█ it's also an explicitly funny sendup of the Cole █░█
█░█ Porter standard "I Get a Kick Out of You," an █░█
█░█ American Songbook classic that expresses just the █░█
█░█ opposite sentiment. Coates juxtaposes his lyrical █░█
█░█ inversion of Porter's original with a similarly █░█
█░█ inverted musical accompaniment û one that takes █░█
█░█ swinging clarinet and gypsy-jazz violin and pairs █░█
█░█ them with the kind of gently thumping beat (and █░█
█░█ subtly elegant turntable flourishes). █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ In fact, sly juxtaposition is the rule everywhere █░█
█░█ on this fascinating album: "The Decline and Fall █░█
█░█ of the Clerkenwell Kid" starts out with bluegrass █░█
█░█ banjo, which then segues into a section featuring █░█
█░█ a melancholy clarinet; the two are later joined █░█
█░█ and combined with a fragmentary spoken word █░█
█░█ section. On "It's a Wonderful Li(f)e," a jazzy █░█
█░█ instrumental setting is provided for the █░█
█░█ decidedly dour lines "You say it's a wonderful █░█
█░█ life" and "You know that's a wonderful lie." On █░█
█░█ "I Believe," Coates takes a leaf from U2's lyric █░█
█░█ book and offers a litany of things in which he █░█
█░█ believes û but typically, the list is complicated █░█
█░█ and at times self-contradictory (it includes █░█
█░█ monogamy, lust, technique, sarcomas, and █░█
█░█ opiates). The last item on each list is "love," █░█
█░█ of course, but he manages to give even that █░█
█░█ obvious entry a twist that may or may not be █░█
█░█ ironic: "I believe in people who I believe █░█
█░█ believe in love." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ The album's emotional center is actually located █░█
█░█ at the end of the program: "Bringing the Body █░█
█░█ Back Home," despite its generally gloomy tone, █░█
█░█ it's a sweet and ultimately encouraging waltz █░█
█░█ that arrives at a philosophical conclusion: "Love █░█
█░█ is the one thing worth living for." If that line █░█
█░█ came at the end of a less thoughtful and █░█
█░█ complicated album (or maybe even at the beginning █░█
█░█ of this one) it would come across as merely █░█
█░█ banal. But as a coda to The London Book of the █░█
█░█ Dead, it feels like the hard-won conclusion to a █░█
█░█ long and difficult thought process û one that, █░█
█░█ despite its difficulty, has yielded tremendous █░█
█░█ and straightforward musical pleasure to those who █░█
█░█ witnessed it. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ The Real Tuesday Weld's music has fascinated more █░█
█░█ than just listeners and critics û it has also █░█
█░█ drawn the attention of major advertisers, and has █░█
█░█ been licensed to accompany ads for Cherry Coke █░█
█░█ (you may have seen the commercial in which █░█
█░█ cherries fall from the sky onto a bewildered but █░█
█░█ eventually delighted urban crowd, while Coates's █░█
█░█ "I Love the Rain" plays in the background) and █░█
█░█ for TV shows like Weeds (Showtime), Gilmore Girls █░█
█░█ (WB) and Nip/Tuck (FX). All of this speaks to not █░█
█░█ only to Coates's finely wrought sense of irony, █░█
█░█ but also to his "anything goes" musical approach: █░█
█░█ asked about his often unusual instrumental █░█
█░█ choices, he responds, "banjo, kazoo, potato █░█
█░█ peeler, you name it û I'll stick anything in." █░█
█░█ The London Book of the Dead is just one more █░█
█░█ example of how a wildly open attitude and a █░█
█░█ slightly mystical bent can result in a distinctly █░█
█░█ personal and wonderfully warm musical personality █░█
█░█ û one that uses technology enthusiastically and █░█
█░█ happily turns it against itself to create █░█
█░█ something that sounds more deeply human than most █░█
█░█ of the music made by analog means elsewhere █░█
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