Worth every penny
author: David Fox
Of the Spottiswoode collection, this is my #2 right behind "That's What I Like". You can listen to these songs over and over and not grow tired. They take you on a winding journey through noire, country-folk, sad-love, and whimsical themes.
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author: satamakatu, Brussels
Very happy to have discovered this album, via Zimmermans and Spottiswoode and his Enemies. Looking forward to future albums and... gigs in Europe!
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Thumbs up!
author: Rick
The quintessential Spottiswoode album - this one brings it all home. Imaginative melodies with delightful accompaniments by Mr. McMahon and friends, this is a weird afternoon of parlor music that is some bastard fusion of Harry Connick Jr and Rod McKuen on acid. The usual gallery of characters and crumbs of love fill in the story lines but it's the music that captivates and intrigues.
I'm usually rotating album's out of my FAV list on my iPod about every week. S&M has been on that list for several weeks now. I'm liking it.
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author: Tamara Turner, CD Baby
There is something fully numbing and stunning about Spottiswoode & McMahon that freezes the brain much like eating ice cream too quickly. While one ponders influences such as Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, these songs blissfully inhabit the spooky, the derelict, the tossed out and forgotten nuggets of human creativity and therefore, steer the listener towards territories that stir and titillate the underbelly of one's mind, the deserted corners of one's heart. Giving the impression that no genre, no style, no sound effect, no far-fetched musical idea is off limits, S&M is an album that is so easy to fall in love with that you'll almost be grumpy about it. Brilliant.
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