Silver and Ash
- 艺人
- Clare Burson
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Rounder Records
- 发行时间
- 2010年09月14日
- 专辑类别
专辑介绍
by William Ruhlmann
For her third full-length recording, Silver and Ash, singer/songwriter Clare Burson obtained a fellowship that allowed her to travel to the homes of her ancestors in Europe in preparation for a concept album about her grandmother's life, leading up to her escape from Germany fleeing the Nazis before World War II. This information is provided in the publicity materials provided to journalists, and it's good that it is, since a mere listen to the album would not elicit it. In songs set to folk, country, and pop/rock arrangements, Burson sings, in a thin alto, repetitive lyrics that impressionistically refer to dislocation and loss. "There's a hole in the house where my baby boy lay," she repeats over and over in "Baby Boy," for example, and she expresses a sense of overwhelming menace in "Everything's Gone" with the multiple statement of the chorus, "There's no way out." But Burson's attempt to address such a large subject is hobbled … » Read more
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