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Album Review

David Cronenberg’s Wife
Hypnagogues Blang Records

Article written by Ged M - Nov 12, 2009

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David Cronenberg's Wife: Hypnogogues
The scene everyone remembers in Goodfellas is Joe Pesci’s character flipping in an instant: “I'm funny how? I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?” There are times here when you get the same sense of comedy-turned-danger from Tom Mayne and company on their second album; one moment you’re embracing their strange poetry (‘Can’t Keep Doing What You Do’) or laughing at ‘The Lou Reed Song’ (“I even liked him when he had a guy on stage with him doing Tai Chi”), next song you’re catapulted into some bluesy tale of jealousy, paranoia and relationship breakdown (‘Fight Song’) or battling a sense of desperation in ‘Make Me A Channel of Your Peace’ (an apocalyptic rereading of St Francis’s prayer).

It’s a breathtaking musical and emotional rollercoaster ride. The best track is the stream of consciousness ‘Sweden’, where the band show off their mastery of repetition, repetition, repetition. There’s a hint of country and western, some frantic punk, even the sound of a very creepy carnival on ‘You Should’ve Closed The Curtain’. But it’s hard to find an adequate comparison for David Cronenberg’s Wife - perhaps the Nightingales, the Fall or a Bad Seeds gone rotten - as they’re a law unto themselves. There isn’t a song here you can ignore but this band does like rolling around in the shit - luckily they keep on finding these little gems for us.

Links:
http://www.davidcronenbergswife.com/
http://www.blang.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/davidcronenbergswife

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