Music Review

Music Review: 'Olé (The Persistence of Memory)'

Reviewed by Chris Willman | Oct 10, 1997
EW's GRADE
A

A&M shelved this during a guard changing in 1990; now unearthed, the T-Bone Burnett-coproduced Olé proves a career high for K. and is arguably better than anything A&M's put out these last seven years. The cult favorite's in his most impassioned protest-singer mode — and what he's protesting in bittersweet rockers like ''Stop the Clock'' is the mysterious temporality of time itself. Which was finally on this buried gem's side. A

Originally posted Oct 10, 1997 Published in issue #400 Oct 10, 1997 Order article reprints

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