Eight “songs” pulled from The Gap sessions. As with the album, you either think Joan Of Arc had become a complete mess by their end, or pure abstract geniuses.
She’s one of the original Bad Seeds, co-wrote some of their more troubling songs, and has offered her vocals to Einstürzende Neubauten and Mick Harvey.
Melodic, noisy, and emotional – Red Bennies have got their shit together. But not too much, so you get the feeling it’s all gonna fall apart at any moment.
Azure Wonder & Lust is complex, samples-rich, echoey, wah-full and skittered up with instrumental comments that blow and crawl and scuttle in all directions.
Are any of these five albums essential? No. Are there 15-20 songs that are absolutely unforgettable and fully deserving of their classic status? You bet.
It’s alternately pretty’n’ugly’n’sometimes pretty ugly. I’ll be throwin’ it on the next time I smoke pot while I watch the sun come up in a snatch-pink sky.