10/10 Review!
22/12/07 18:28
We received the first review of our new record
recently, and it's a good one. Thought we'd share it
with you!
Jim Clements & The Right To Die - CD - When The Saints Go
(www.jimclementsandtherighttodie.com)
Almost immediately, even during the opening refrains, I sensed that 'When The Saints Go' by Jim Clements & The Right To Die was gonna be something quite special. Don't ask me why, I just knew that this album was gonna be quite unlike anything else I've heard for donkey's trousers! Believe me, I wasn't wrong and I defo wasn't disappointed!!
Jim Clements & The Right To Die specialise in a musical genre that's hard to describe; it's a sort of gypsy/indie/nu-folk kinda thing - sort of folksy-blue Nick Cave meets Dylanesque Country Joe McDonald - hard-edged, dark, poetic story-telling set to wondrously sympathetic acoustic biased music. That's as close I can get to putting in words what this excellent band is about! Whatever, 'When The Saints Go' is a superbly composed and stunningly executed album that seems to be a bi-conceptual work; two halves telling two distinctly different but equally absorbing stories - I think!!!
'When The Saints Go' is dark but somehow never really 'haunting'. Clements & Co seem to be able to portray dark but make it feel nothing less than acceptably vibrant - this they appear to do through a mixture of great, mature writing and sensitively understated but passionately expressive playing. The end result is genuinely brilliant and although maybe not totally commercial in the true sense, it's certainly as cultishly viable as even the most successful and globally accepted works of Cave, Waits and other similarly ilked artists. Jim Clements & The Right To die show that the lyrically macabre can be lifted and lightened by quality, expansive musical composition and well thought out instrumental atmospherics. These 'guys' work as a well prepared, closely knit team and their experienced professionalism and 'oneness' combined with massive musical creativity bring new hope to an all-too-often mundane musical era - Jim Clements & The Right To Die are like a cool, life-saving oasis in a barren and parched musical desert.
'When The Saints Go' by Jim Clements & The Right To Die is simply superb - refreshing and innovative - quality from conception to delivery - nothing short of brilliant!!
Peter J Brown aka toxic pete (www.toxicpete.co.uk)
(Rhythm & Booze rating 10)
Jim Clements & The Right To Die - CD - When The Saints Go
(www.jimclementsandtherighttodie.com)
Almost immediately, even during the opening refrains, I sensed that 'When The Saints Go' by Jim Clements & The Right To Die was gonna be something quite special. Don't ask me why, I just knew that this album was gonna be quite unlike anything else I've heard for donkey's trousers! Believe me, I wasn't wrong and I defo wasn't disappointed!!
Jim Clements & The Right To Die specialise in a musical genre that's hard to describe; it's a sort of gypsy/indie/nu-folk kinda thing - sort of folksy-blue Nick Cave meets Dylanesque Country Joe McDonald - hard-edged, dark, poetic story-telling set to wondrously sympathetic acoustic biased music. That's as close I can get to putting in words what this excellent band is about! Whatever, 'When The Saints Go' is a superbly composed and stunningly executed album that seems to be a bi-conceptual work; two halves telling two distinctly different but equally absorbing stories - I think!!!
'When The Saints Go' is dark but somehow never really 'haunting'. Clements & Co seem to be able to portray dark but make it feel nothing less than acceptably vibrant - this they appear to do through a mixture of great, mature writing and sensitively understated but passionately expressive playing. The end result is genuinely brilliant and although maybe not totally commercial in the true sense, it's certainly as cultishly viable as even the most successful and globally accepted works of Cave, Waits and other similarly ilked artists. Jim Clements & The Right To die show that the lyrically macabre can be lifted and lightened by quality, expansive musical composition and well thought out instrumental atmospherics. These 'guys' work as a well prepared, closely knit team and their experienced professionalism and 'oneness' combined with massive musical creativity bring new hope to an all-too-often mundane musical era - Jim Clements & The Right To Die are like a cool, life-saving oasis in a barren and parched musical desert.
'When The Saints Go' by Jim Clements & The Right To Die is simply superb - refreshing and innovative - quality from conception to delivery - nothing short of brilliant!!
Peter J Brown aka toxic pete (www.toxicpete.co.uk)
(Rhythm & Booze rating 10)