There's Something Going On

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艺人: Babybird
语种: 英语
厂牌: Chrysalis
发行时间: 1998年07月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Tim DiGravina

There's Something Going On is the least catchy of Stephen Jones' hi-fi Baby Bird albums. The only song suggesting the pop charm of &You're Gorgeous& is &If You'll Be Mine,& a beautiful minor ballad. The album is almost unrelentingly dark and mysterious, in much the same manner as his earlier lo-fi productions. Indeed, two of the tracks here, &You Will Always Love Me& and &There's Something Going On,& were recorded straight to four-track. Jones' voice echoes out of lyrical valleys that suggest he's quite disturbed when it comes to relationships and life in general. &Take Me Back& is a horrific tale of an obsessive relationship, with lyrics about eyeballs scratched with rusty nails and a creepy chant of &dead, dead, dead& ad infinitum. It's a conceit that starts with the very first track, &Bad Old Man,& where Jones sings of wife-beaters and a drowning in a duck pond. Musically, the album is more of a lean toward the baroque than Ugly Beautiful. One might describe it as stark, disturbed chamber pop. Beautiful melodies appear quite majestically out of Jones' psychological studies. &It's Not Funny Anymore& is bittersweet and touching, with Jones reaching for the album's emotional core over weeping, organic keyboards. &There's Something Going On& is the tender conclusion, suggesting that Jones knows there's a better way of life than obsession and self-torture. There's Something Going On is definitely Baby Bird's most subtle album, and it's a fascinating listen from start to finish.

There's Something Going On

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