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- >] q9|'!m5K 专辑名称:I Never Thought This Day Would Come
x= X"4Mj0) 歌手姓名:Duke Special
saY":fva 唱片公司:Universal
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MX;W 发行日期:2008年10月17日
OF-$* 专辑流派:Indie
HW"@~-\ 推荐指数:4星
gA D, G*^4+^Vz? 专辑介绍:
Jpm=V*P jnho*,X From Illinois to Culleybacky, Co Antrim, Duke Special (aka
3RJsH:u8 Peter Wilson) has fashioned a follow-up to his multi-platinum
bi~1d"j selling Songs from the Deep Forest .
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. ZMEU4?F I Never Thought . . . resonates with equal amounts of musical
_Oc5g5_{ cajoling and lyrical honesty. The mood throughout is rather
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Me Luck , Those Proverbs We Made in the Winter Must End , Why
y!eT>4Oyg Does Anybody Love? , By the Skin of My Teeth , Nothing Comes
[]OmztB Easy , Nothin' You Can Do Can Bring Me Around ). Still, the
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>UNx<=ry methods.
+adwEYRrr 4]G J+a Not even the ska-driven jauntiness of Digging an Early Grave
}iIZA>eF can take away from the overall sense of morbidity and
+cWo^ d. foreboding that, curiously, never threatens to spoil the
n,D&pl9f listening pleasure. This could be because Wilson has, over the
L _D # course of three albums, engineered the knack of mixing
X~g U$ dispiriting topics with a surefooted musical approach that
;x.5_Xw{. never undermines the content.
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G,!{Q''w appearance, which resembles a blend of Catweazle, a Grafton
qBX<{[ Street busker and the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang
Ok({Al1A,w Bang . They're also confused by his music, which owes as much
<WBGPzVZE to burlesque and music hall as it does to pop. Those put off
7@tr^JykO by such superficialities miss the most important aspect of
"TjR]jnV( Wilson's shtick: his forensic attention to detail.
a/)TJv !>S'eXt So forget the gender-skewing dreadlocks and eyeliner. Here is
2,QkktJLo a guy who matches the lost art of the popular song with the
&*)tqQeQf found sound of swirling pop/rock and symphony orchestras. With
[[s k a bit of Bridie Gallagher thrown in for good Irish measure
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