Artist: Duke Special
Title: I Never Thought This Day Would Come
Label: Universal
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 188kbit av.
Time: 00:43:28
Size: 61.38 mb
Rip Date: 2008-10-16
Str Date: 2008-10-17
1. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck 3:43
2. Sweet, Sweet Kisses 3:03
3. Those Proverbs We Made In The Winter Must End 2:59
4. Diggin' An Early Grave 3:17
5. I Never Thought This Day Would Come (And Now It 3:22
Won't Go Away)
6. Why Does Anybody Love 4:02
7. Flesh And Blood Dance 3:29
8. I Don't Feel It 4:47
9. Let Me Go (Please, Please, Please!) 3:33
10. By The Skin Of My Teeth 3:43
11. Nothing Comes Easy 3:40
12. Nothin' You Could Do Can Bring Me Round 3:50
Release Notes:
From Illinois to Culleybacky, Co Antrim, Duke Special (aka
Peter Wilson) has fashioned a follow-up to his multi-platinum
selling Songs from the Deep Forest .
I Never Thought . . . resonates with equal amounts of musical
cajoling and lyrical honesty. The mood throughout is rather
more sombre. Just check out the song titles ( Mockingbird Wish
Me Luck , Those Proverbs We Made in the Winter Must End , Why
Does Anybody Love? , By the Skin of My Teeth , Nothing Comes
Easy , Nothin' You Can Do Can Bring Me Around ). Still, the
music is several steps above even Special's fastidious
methods.
Not even the ska-driven jauntiness of Digging an Early Grave
can take away from the overall sense of morbidity and
foreboding that, curiously, never threatens to spoil the
listening pleasure. This could be because Wilson has, over the
course of three albums, engineered the knack of mixing
dispiriting topics with a surefooted musical approach that
never undermines the content.
Some people don't get Duke Special. They are put off by his
appearance, which resembles a blend of Catweazle, a Grafton
Street busker and the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang . They're also confused by his music, which owes as much
to burlesque and music hall as it does to pop. Those put off
by such superficialities miss the most important aspect of
Wilson's shtick: his forensic attention to detail.
So forget the gender-skewing dreadlocks and eyeliner. Here is
a guy who matches the lost art of the popular song with the
found sound of swirling pop/rock and symphony orchestras. With
a bit of Bridie Gallagher thrown in for good Irish measure
(that'll be the title track, then).