A Stitch in Time

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review by: melmu date: 2009-05-09 rating:
A Stitch In Time - The Twilight Singers ep
You don't buy this for the number of tracks (only 5) or for the quality of most of them. You buy it because you are a fan of Afghan Whigs, The Screaming Trees and The Gutter Twins; but you buy it mainly because of the opening track, a brilliant cover of Massive Attack's 'Live With Me'.


review by: We're all Frankies' date: 2007-01-21 rating:
Companion to Powder Burns...
` a stitch in time' is a companion to Twilight Singers' 2006 album `Powder Burns', three of the tracks (`sublime', `they ride' `the lure would prove too much') feel like leftovers from those sessions - which the presence of Joseph Arthur, former Afghan Whig colleague Rick McCollum (in a co-writing capacity) et al suggests. Parts of the production like `Powder Burns' seem a little slick and were much better live when the Twilight Singers toured (...a live album could be a great thing, especially the points where Dulli was on his tod on the piano or when Mark Lanegan appeared!). br / br /Lanegan has a history with Dulli - both were in great bands that were kind of tainted by the whole Grunge Phenomenon and the pair were rumoured to have been housemates during the chemical years that followed. Dulli had previously guested on 2003's `Here Comes the Weird Chill'/the following year's `Bubblegum' on the mighty `Methamphetamine Blues' and Lanegan returned the favour on the Twilight Singers' covers album `She Loves You.' Lanegan joined up the Twilight Singers tour (just at the time his collaboration with Isobel Campbell was doing very well!) and surfaced halfway through the set and sometime for the encore for several tracks including `Where Did You Sleep Last Night. Lanegan features on two tracks here, a brilliant cover of the Terry Callier-fronted Massive Attack song `Live with Me', which is perfect for those gnarly vocals, and for another cover version `Flashback' (I won't pretend to be familiar with the original). The e.p. is worth buying for those two tracks alone, though `sublime' is great - the vocal interplay between Arthur and Dulli is similar to that of Dulli and Lanegan and Greg sounds a bit like Lanegan sometimes (as the lead singer of Comets on Fire sounds like Dulli on `Lucifer's Memory!). br / br /This is a fine companion to `Powder Burns' and a taster for the upcoming Dulli/Lanegan collaboration as the Gutterhearts/Gutter Hearts (has anyone told Marc Almond?). Between that Lanegan is touring last year's `Ballad of the Broken Seas' with Campbell, which must mean Dulli is about to work with Belle Sebastian? Maybe not... br / br /

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