Back on the Water
- 艺人
- Freeheat
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Planting Seeds Records
- 发行时间
- 2006年01月01日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Ned Raggett
The dissolution of the Jesus and Mary Chain didn't mean an end to music-making for the Reid brothers, though Jim Reid and fellow JAMC refugee Ben Lurie found themselves unable to release a full album during the existence of their subsequent band, Freeheat. Appearing at the same time as the JAMC reissues in the middle of 2006, Back on the Water is therefore simultaneously new and retrospective, a catch-all of various studio EP tracks recorded in 1997 and live songs taken from a date at Amsterdam's legendary Paradiso venue in 2003. The differences between Freeheat and its more famous forebear are, unsurprisingly, pretty minimal -- whatever differences caused the Reids' split, they don't appear to have been musical (song titles like "Dead End Kids" and "Down" further make the point). Hearing Reid's familiar yowl right from the start on "Keep on Truckin'" set against a big guitar riff/pop hook blast establishes where Freeheat goes from there, in particular suggesting the Stoned & Dethroned era. There's more country/folk-as-such songs such as "Shine on Little Star" that could have been on said album, while some songs like "Down" and "Everything," with its slinking strut and tense guitar break, are winners in their own right. The live tracks, scattered throughout the disc, happily don't duplicate the studio songs outside of "Shine on Little Star," given an electric guitar based arrangement. In concert the group sounded a touch looser than in studio to not bad effect -- if the songs were working from the same familiar obsessively monolithic template of melody/noise, the drums sounded less overpowering and the mood on songs like the title track and "The Two of Us," a duet with Romi Mori, sprightlier. (Though admittedly "The Story So Far" is one of the more turgid songs either Reid brother has done.) In the end Back on the Water is an interesting curio for those already appreciative of the JAMC, but beyond that is more enjoyable enough than noteworthy.
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