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videoSlim Paul - Good for You
The good, the rad and the stubbly
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2021
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This is not very frequent, but here is an album which starting pieces are enjoyable, whereas the ending ones are straight captivating!
The previous album, Dead Already was rather dark. The new one, still blues of course, wants to appear more positive. As its title indicates, it intends to do you good. “Good is Gonna Come, worst’s already done”
However, I do cling to it when I listen to the few less optimistic tracks ("Bury Me Deep", "Everybody Knows"), finding myself going into convulsions, or suddenly beginning to click my fingers ("Log Dog").
What else?
"Amazing You"? Looks like Ray Charles!
"Everybody Knows" and its nagging riff conjure a more Ben Harper side. “Everybody knows that I'm gonna leave you. I didn't tell anybody but it's in the air”!
As a guest in "In the Shadow" (political blues), the crazy harmonicist Mickaël Mazaleyrat reminds me of Thomas Schoeffler Jr.
On the superb sleeve, Slim Paul the singer with American influences seems to engage in incantations. And its torn voice which smells like life just adds to fascination.
With the very nice instrumental "Tess & I" and its children’s cries, Slim Paul the virtuoso guitarist gets himself noticed.
All in all, the swinging of the compositions and the well-done voice-instruments association make this album very comfy and it does you good indeed. Mission accomplished.
The ending pieces being straight captivating, I tried to play the tracks the other way round: this virtual alternative album would logically be called You for Good, and it works very well too!
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Effectiveness, no risk of weariness: the tracks are mostly around 3 minutes. Even the opening piece, "When You Keep on Groovin", yet rising very slowly.
The award of the longest track of the record goes to the ending piece, "There Will Be No Dawn", with its 5:26. Typically the kind of piece you don’t pay attention to at the first times, and then... And then this acoustic guitar tuned in "Drop D" (+capo 2, hi axe players) and this deep whispering voice, à la Leonard Cohen, end up settling inside you and you say to yourself something’s happening. You could potentially make it play the role of the starting point, like I proposed above (opt for the other way round)... and why not making it start a concert (?)
Otherwise, "Bury Me Deep", that I already spoke of, takes length well too (4:38), with its ternary rhythm and its A-B-A-B structure, alternating feverish storms and precarious lulls. -
Bury Me Deep
Good is Gonna Come
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That Line
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The sentence
“I'm nothing but a slave in a pale version” ("There Will Be No Dawn")
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himwww.slimpaul.com (131 Hits)
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...And now, listen!
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Created10 May 2021
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