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Release Date: Sep 09, 2003; Lead Performance: David Byrne
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Like Paul Westerberg recording for Vagrant, there's something beautiful about David Byrne working with Thrill Jockey -- the wizened elder teaming up with young indie kin just as the major labels seem done with him. This mostly instrumental set draws from the score of a Scottish indie about a barge worker (tres-hot Ewan McGregor) trying to screw his ghosts away. Long on strings and ambient guitars, Byrne's music is wonderfully brooding without losing the odd bounce in its step; chamber-rock moonlighters from Mogwai and Belle & Sebastian help capture the regional vibe. SINGING FROM THE HEAD ''The Great Western Road'' is a surreal piano ballad with Byrne sounding like a cross between Groucho Marx and God.
Posted Oct 17, 2003
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