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Author: MORPHINE

Format: Import

Release Date: 28-04-2000

Details: Amazon.caIn a rock & roll world divided between guitar bands and synth bands, Morphine exist in a no-man’s zone. The Boston trio has neither guitars nor keyboards and gets by with just drums, sax, and bass. In a pop universe where every singer, guitarist, and keyboardist instinctively goes to a higher note to attract attention, Morphine stay hunkered down low. Billy Conway’s tuned drum kit, Dana Colley’s baritone sax and Mark Sandman’s baritone vocals and two-string slide bass all occupy the same low-end band of the sound spectrum. Morphine’s odd configuration would have no more than novelty value if Sandman’s songs weren’t so good. This album’s first single, « Honey White, » for instance, rides the back of a fast, angular baritone riff to describe a pretty, young girl hooked on drugs. In the dark comedy of Sandman’s rock-noir purr, Honey tells her dealer, « You’ll get me when I’m old and wizened and not a day before that. » He replies, « It won’t be that long. » The beat and the humor are essential, for otherwise these jazzy, elliptical mood pieces would become unbearably pretentious. The broken relationship described in « Radar » is a pop clich, but it’s given new life by the shattered R&B riff and by the nit-picking bickering of lines like « If I am guilty, so are you. It was March 4, 1982. » In similar fashion, modern paranoia and sexual gamesmanship are nailed to the wall in « Sharks » and « Whisper » respectively.–Geoffrey Himes

UPC: 014431032028

EAN: 0014431032028

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood