Mojave 3
Out Of Tune
Albumreview
Recordlabel: 4AD
Uitgebracht: 2001
Albumreview
Out of Tune, Mojave 3's second album, is titled with double accuracy: Not only does the English band love the dodgy pitches that have helped many a Neil Young and Sonic Youth album thrive, it also embraces American-folk-sired countryisms that aren't exactly in sync with the Top Forty world. But Out of Tune is stunning, an unerring collection of floating, giant little moments. With a wired, but eerily stress-free, urgency, leadman Neil Halstead applies his comfortable tenor to songs like "Who Do You Love" and "Keep It All Hid," which contain a sure, if slightly ruined, sense of Nineties rock architecture. As right as everything sounds, though, Halstead's writing is even better: "And you lean against the wall," he charges slowly in "Hid," "like you just learned how." Like any good country singer, he almost makes you cry. (RS 809)
JAMES HUNTER