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Jack Palmer and Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing (2016)

Posted By: Pisulik
Jack Palmer and Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing (2016)

Jack Palmer and Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing (2016)
Folk, Americana | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:47:46 | 116 MB
Label: Eight Foot Records | Release Year: 2016

2016 debut collaboration between ex-Dresden Dolls vocalist Amanda Palmer & her dad Jack, covering songs by Leonard Cohen, John Grant, Richard Thompson, Sinead O'Connor, Phil Ochs & others. Before she had her baby, Amanda Palmer was terrified that, when she’d had him, she’d 'play nice folk songs'. Now, as she joked to her audience at Koko last month, by making this record with her dad Jack Palmer, 'lo and behold…' Her hope, she continued, was that she was 'exorcising this thing like a satanic demon'. But for some reason, You Got Me Singing doesn’t feel as incongruous with the rest of her self-described 'punk cabaret' body of work as she seems to think. Maybe because categorising her work before You Got Me Singing was never really that simple. She was always making music that felt right to her, and that’s what she’s doing now.

And there might be a lot of 'folk' here, but no-one could ever claim that it was simply nice; there are a couple stunning protest songs and a few Heartwrenching Tragic Ballads that feel very Classic AFP, so lullabies ‘Wynken, Blynken and Nod’ and ‘Skye Boat Song’ feel anything but twee. In fact, one of the great things about this album is how it shows the variation of ways that folk sounds can be brilliant. The beauty of ‘You Got Me Singing’ has a warmth that feels like the sound version of a hug, while that of ‘Pink Emerson Radio’ borders on ethereal in its sorrow; the lightness of ‘Again’ and ‘All I Could Do’ beautifully highlight-through-contrast their melancholy and bittersweetness respectively, while amongst the two protest songs,‘Black Boys On Mopeds’ is as mournful as ‘In The Heat Of The Summer’ is angry. Jack Palmer’s lyric changes in the latter are perfectly suited to recent events, containing a deliberate nod of support to the Black Lives Matter Movement. As they noted themselves at Koko, the fact that these protest songs written in the Sixties and Eighties are just as relevant today adds to their already-immense tragedy.

TRACKLIST

01. You Got Me Singing
02. Wynken, Blynken and Nod
03. Again
04. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
05. Louise Was Not Half Bad
06. Black Boys on Mopeds
07. All I Could Do
08. In The Heat of the Summer
09. Pink Emerson Radio
10. Skye Boat Song
11. Glacier
12. I Love You So Much