On what is essentially his second solo album, Afghan Whigs\/Twilight Singers leader Dulli gets a bit introspective and melancholy. Opening track \u201cPantomima\u201d starts off very bass heavy and then turns into an uptempo R&B styled rocker. It\u2019s a nice way to kick off the record and remind listeners of how sultry Dulli can be when he wants to be.<\/p>\n
The quiet acoustic tendencies of \u201cMarry Me\u201d highlight the power of the song and make it quite the standout. I haven\u2019t dug Dulli this much since 2014\u2019s Do To The Beast<\/i>. It\u2019s definitely a song to tug the heartstrings. On the other side, \u201cThe Tide\u201d shows off Dulli becoming a pained and earnest singer songwriter trying to pull every emotion out of every word. It\u2019s a decent enough track, but doesn\u2019t quite have the strength to be as interesting. <\/p>\n
This is a record that is all over the place and it makes it less memorable than you want it to be. The ballads like \u201cSlow Pan\u201d are hit-or-miss and the rockers are so schizophrenically sonic that you wonder if the material here was just stuff he couldn\u2019t work out in his other projects.<\/p>\n
I want to like this record, but unfortunately there are plenty of tracks like \u201cA Ghost\u201d and \u201cIt Falls Apart\u201d that just feel dull and uninteresting. The less said about the bland and horribly boring \u201cLockless\u201d the better off we all are. You tend to lose interest towards the end. <\/p>\n
I was hoping for better things as I\u2019ve always like the Whigs and Dulli as a vocalist and a writer. Ultimately, one gets set up for quite an interesting disc and what you get is a colossal disappointment and a record that\u2019s better left to the clearance bin of 2020 than any best of list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10480],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-45831","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-greg-dulli","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45831"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}