Виниловая пластинка Morten Valence – Black Angel Drifter 2021 Sealed

This, the seventh studio offering from Urban Country duo Morton Valence (Anne Gilpin and Robert "Hacker" Jessett), started life as their experimental side-project back in 2016. Legendary UK country label Cow Pie Ltd's - established in 1978 by BJ Cole and Hank Wangford - sensibilities were especially tweaked and they were convinced it was time this spectacular album finally got the airing it has always deserved, remastered and repackaged for a new era. The album features ten tracks. From the explosive intro of Skylines Change / Genders Blur, coming at you like the illegitimate lovechild of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Ennio Morricone, to the down-at-heel "Black-Eyed Susan", replete with sweaty priest and bullwhips, Morton Valence also flirt with the blues on "Sister Pain", deliver sorrowful, divine love songs like "The Visit" & "Hymn Four" and breathe fresh discordant life into the late 80s Bob Dylan classic, "The Man with the Long Black Coat". As antithesis to a no regrets-type torch song, "If I Could Start Again", where a man recounts his misspent life from a prison cell, could have been penned by Merle Haggard. The unrelenting "Trail of Tears" is more akin to late-70's Martin Rev robotics than anything ever created on a guitar. Alongside Gilpin and Hacker, Alan Cook's sublime pedal steel guitar is omnipresent throughout the album. "Black Angel Drifter" is an alt-country album that puts the rulebook through the shredder and starts again, set to put Urban Country on the map and give UK Alt-country an authentic new voice of its own, a voice that is genuinely original, new and exciting. Quotes : "They drift with phantom ease from spare, intimate, literate alt-country to a nuanced, weighted music bearing the marks of rock'n'roll history..." Classic Rock 8/10 // slow burning, emotional intensity" Mojo **** // Imaginative concept album of delicious burlesque pop....ballads, odd funk grooves, lo-fi electro-pop and more, resulting in a rich treasure trove of songs

Format / LP
Released / 04/30/2021
Catalogue / COP-I5
Barcode / 5070000138268
Artist / Morten Valence
Label / Cow Pie Records
Genre / Country