Review
Both experimental and welcoming, the double album proves more spontaneous in feel and expansive in style than past Big Thief outings.
It has been a long time since I last felt this passionately about a new artist as I do about The Beths.
Despite its flaws, Dreaming Zenzile reflects, with power, on the difficult relationship between art and activism.
This is an album that’s at once musically significant but, more than that, thoroughly enjoyable. How tragic that, largely on account of her race and gender, Florence Price’s music was almost erased.
Pianist Billy Lester is an amusingly dry fellow who is also a deeply serious, idiosyncratic musician.
It’s no exaggeration to say that some of the men and women who embraced writing while they were in prison and whose work is featured in this book were writing for their lives.
Is it possible that adventurous readers have a better feel for the virtues of this zany, demanding satire than fuddy-duddy critics?
Others may hear a painfully flawed Latin jazz album, but what I heard was a brilliant postmodern ironic jam session in the mode of Ornette Coleman. I’m probably wrong, but I don’t care, because this album is a blast.
People, Places & Things memorably tackles the insidiousness of addiction.
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