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Album Review

Grant-Lee Phillips Ladies' Love Oracle
Cooking Vinyl

Article written by Ed F
Oct 22, 2004.

The rather simian looking Grant-Lee might be best remembered for his time fronting the stellar Grant Lee Buffalo, who exploded onto the scene in 1993 with the propulsive folk rock of “Fuzzy”, (surely up there with the best albums of the 90’s), sadly the prevailing winds of 90’s musical fashion never seemed to quite blow in GLB’s direction, affording them limited commercial success despite considerable critical acclaim.

Fortunately, after the bands split in 1999 Grant-Lee carried on recording and three days of self enforced basement exclusion in the autumn of that year spawned this collection of solo recordings, originally given a limited release in 2000, finally emerging from the dark basement and now seeing the light of day in a proper release.

Sounding exactly as you might expect from an album recorded in a basement probably bereft of natural light, Ladies’ Love Oracle is mournful, intimate and deliciously sad, probably up there with some of the best stuff Mr Phillips has ever written. The weirdly titled opening track “You’re a pony” gets the record off to a cracking start, and following that it’s track after track of elegantly crafted singer songwriter stuff, all wispy breathed vocal melodies and guitar strummed like a man who has had his heart broken once too often.

“Sometimes a sketch says more than a mural” writes Grant-Lee in the sleeve notes, describing the sparse nature of this recording. Fans of the sparce approach can get more of Grant Lee in two similar, and both excellent, records released since 2000.

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