d>r_a9 .u @l^BW*BCo 专辑名称:I Never Thought This Day Would Come
tG}cmK~% 歌手姓名:Duke Special
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=) 唱片公司:Universal
z*BGaSX % 发行日期:2008年10月17日
'X{J~fEI! 专辑流派:Indie
;JAb8dyS2 推荐指数:4星
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=!Ce#p?h, 1 wB2:o< From Illinois to Culleybacky, Co Antrim, Duke Special (aka
HA W57N Peter Wilson) has fashioned a follow-up to his multi-platinum
ds|L'7 selling Songs from the Deep Forest .
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K6wo Hb|y`O k I Never Thought . . . resonates with equal amounts of musical
,)](h+zl_6 cajoling and lyrical honesty. The mood throughout is rather
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. L'eVLQe Me Luck , Those Proverbs We Made in the Winter Must End , Why
:3$-Qv X Does Anybody Love? , By the Skin of My Teeth , Nothing Comes
+ZU@MOni Easy , Nothin' You Can Do Can Bring Me Around ). Still, the
&R~)/y0] music is several steps above even Special's fastidious
\CDzVO0^ methods.
/C"?Y' %jRqrICd Not even the ska-driven jauntiness of Digging an Early Grave
JMIS*njq^ can take away from the overall sense of morbidity and
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<`Q foreboding that, curiously, never threatens to spoil the
C#Y_La listening pleasure. This could be because Wilson has, over the
u~VvGLFf5, course of three albums, engineered the knack of mixing
c"x-_Uk dispiriting topics with a surefooted musical approach that
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never undermines the content.
* M,'F^E2 2,.;Mdl Some people don't get Duke Special. They are put off by his
|ZBHXv appearance, which resembles a blend of Catweazle, a Grafton
Rd^X. Street busker and the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang
wjnQK Bang . They're also confused by his music, which owes as much
LYvjqNC&4 to burlesque and music hall as it does to pop. Those put off
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by such superficialities miss the most important aspect of
,oS<9kC68 Wilson's shtick: his forensic attention to detail.
@}B,l.Tj "FfIq; So forget the gender-skewing dreadlocks and eyeliner. Here is
f1}am< a guy who matches the lost art of the popular song with the
D^jyG6Ch found sound of swirling pop/rock and symphony orchestras. With
;&8 a bit of Bridie Gallagher thrown in for good Irish measure
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