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Retribution Gospel Choir - Retribution Gospel Choir (Cycle/Konkurrent) |
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Words: The Corpo
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It's a dilemma facing any front-person looking to escape the
constraints of their musical day job, "Are these dreaded side project
songs going to show a valid, intriguing and different slant to my
artistic persona? Or are they just gonna suck?" It must be
particularly daunting for Alan Sparhawk considering his benchmarks are
the several intensely revered albums recorded by his band, Low. Rather
than trying to radically blindside himself, Retribution Gospel Choir
take a handful of recent Low songs and re-imagine them with a hint of
Crazy Horse bluster. If Low is the elephant in the room, why not stare
it down and see what happens? The choir prove to be a cathartic and
revelatory approach, and the new material generated finds Sparhawk
pushed down a fresh path of musical mischief. |
