Songs of Pain and Leisure
Album | T.W. Walsh
Fine '70s-flavored singer-songwriter rock.
A full decade after his last album under his own name, producer and multi-instrumentalist T.W. Walsh returns with a collection of confessional-sounding singer-songwriter tunes juiced up by their loose-limbed, casual delivery: think vintage Warren Zevon, or perhaps a parallel universe where Leonard Cohen fronted The Band. Alternating between shaggy full-band rockers like "Plant A Garden" or "Pawn Shop Guns" and hushed solo pieces like the unsettlingly portentous "Rattling Jar," Songs of Pain and Leisure doesn't make a big deal of its retro vibe. Instead, it seems like part of a generally unpretentious, keep-it-simple philosophy: some songs, like the absurdly catchy rockers "Capital Gains" and "Build Me A Ballpark," feel oddly abrupt in their endings, as if Walsh just stopped before he got bored. A fine companion piece to Jonathan Wilson's equally unassuming Gentle Spirit, Songs Of Plain and Leisure is an unexpected gem.
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