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Most of the songs find Oldham in an unmerciful mode of self-examination, as he cast aspersions on his own life as well as the lives of others. What makes ARISE work is that Oldham is also at his most poetic here, in an almost traditional sense, ... Full Descriptionwith lyrics full of archaic imagery and language. The music is appropriately stately, achieving just the right mix of tradition and invention. ARISE THEREFORE sounds like nothing else, and succeeds on its own terms.
A sticker appended to the packaging is the only thing identifying this as a Palace album. After this last official release by the "band," Will Oldham would become the solo artist he'd already been in everything but name. The mercurial songwriter/performer, fresh from the rocked-up triumph of VIVA LAST BLUES, reinvents himself yet again on ARISE. A uniformly placid sound is marked by the piano and organ of Gastr Del Sol's David Grubbs and a gloriously cheap-sounding drum machine that provides the only rhythm.
Palace Music includes: Will Oldham (vocals); David Grubbs (piano); Ned Oldham (bass, background vocals).
Spin (6/96, p.117) - "...a piano-dominated, antique-drum-machine-inflected, post-rock dirge. Oldham's unabashed weirdness leave his music both newer and more ancient than expected..."
Alternative Press (8/96, p.82) - 5 (out of 5) - "...another slice of resigned contentment and desperation....wrapped in weighty silence....an abstract, other-wordly, modern-yet-religiously fable-like sense....a series of breakdowns and battles, losses of trust and faith..."
Option (9-10/96, p.124) - "...much of the Palace recipe remains the same: Ned Oldham again contributes his galumping bass guitar lines, and the ubiquitous Steve Albini returns to preside over the barest of studio essentials....Above all...the all-too-real misanthropy of Oldham's character studies--is in full effect..."
Melody Maker (4/20/96, p.36) - "...parched, weary, enough to bring you to tears....it's as if `The Wasteland' had been written by some Kentucky hillbilly, strummed and crooned into a tape machine brought round by visiting government archivists during the FDR years, only now rediscovered..."
NME (Magazine) (4/20/96, p.49) - 7 (out of 10) - "...ARISE THEREFORE is beautiful, fatally cracked music--the sound of a man dragged out...in the dead of night, brought to a swamp dweller's shack and made to confess his deepest fears, cruelest thoughts and most exacting recriminations..." Hide Description Palace Music Arise Therefore Songs Purchase Arise Therefore CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You CD (1993)
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Over ramshackle accompaniment that comes off like a bluegrass band on acid, Oldham sings of sin, family, death, drunkenness and incest, among other down-home themes, in a cracked, emotive Appalachian tenor. His fractured portrait of rural America's dark underbelly as heard on THERE IS NO ONE remains one of the most affecting and disturbing visions in the indie-rock/lo-fi canon. If Neil Young ...
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The second Palace Brothers album was originally self-titled (or untitled), though the moniker DAYS IN THE WAKE was appended to later pressings. The release is at once a progression from and reduction of the twisted lo-fi country-folk of the debut album. DAYS is essentially just Oldham, his cracked tenor and his acoustic guitar.
The songs aren't as unremittingly dark ...
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Surging electric guitar riffs and powerful drums mark the sound of "Work Hard/Play Hard," "Cat's Blues" and others. The downcast folk-poet sound of yore isn't entirely absent though, as evidenced by the touching, romantic ballad "We All, Us Three, Will Ride" and the poignant, countryish "New Partner." A well-balanced album, and one of the finest in the Palace catalog.
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LOST BLUES & OTHER SONGS is a collection of B-sides and rarities.
By 1997, Will Oldham was ready to cast off the Palace mantle and pursue a solo career, but not before leaving fans with this unforgettable memento. LOST BLUES is basically a collection of b-sides and alternate versions of Palace songs, but instead of a being a batch of leftovers, it's as definitive as the "best-of" collection Oldham is far too iconoclastic to ever consider.
The early single "Ohio River Boat Song" represents the band's tradition-minded beginnings. The Mekons-penned "Horses" stands as a testament to Palace's ...
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo "When the Stars Go Blue," and a great, leering rendition of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine."
Somewhat more mysteriously, Rolling Stone Ron Wood also turns up on what sounds dangerously close to a lounge version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing," but this minor faux pas is redeemed by the Irish folk medley "Joy of Life/Trout in the Bath" which arguably features more full-on Irishness than the Dublin production of RIVERDANCE. There's also a lovely rendition of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your ...
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