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BECAUSE HER BEAUTY IS RAW AND WILD
Jonathan RICHMAN
- Ref. XR574T
- VAPOR RECORDS, 2008.
"As another understated Jonathan Richman album arrives, with remarkably little publicity, this Massachusetts native's influence can hardly be overstated. 1976's recently reissued The Modern Lovers is a proto-punk classic, foreshadowing hardcore punk's Minor Threat-led "straight edge" movement while inspiring artists from the Sex Pistols and David Bowie through Galaxie 500 and Art Brut. Richman's wide-eyed sincerity, developed further over subsequent solo LPs, also shines out of great indie-pop from the Television Personalities to Jens Lekman. But the last thing most people would expect from the There's Something About Mary guy is an album haunted by death. Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild, Richman's first proper LP since 2004's minor masterpiece Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love, sounds like more of the same low-key acoustic-pop that Richman and percussionist Tommy Larkins have made into practically their own genre over the years. There's even Richman's latest ode to a painter-- the "Egyptian Reggae"-flavored "No One Was Like Vermeer"-- plus two more
foreign-language songs (one French, one Spanish, both so-so). It's just
that, for Richman, our human imperfection only heightens our human emotions: whether natural beauty on the title track, or natural odors on "The Lovers Are Here and They're Full of Sweat". Richman and Larkins play their live shows without A/C, and the production here is just as warm and intimate, romanticizing the messy, ever-passing moment rather than striving for a digital perfection Richman probably considers drab and sterile." www.pitchforkmedia.com
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- 1 Because her beauty is raw and wild
- 2 No one was like Vermeer
- 3 Time has been going by so fast
- 4 Es como el pan
- 5 Our drab ways
- 6 The lovers are here and they're full of swaet
- 7 Le printemps des amoureux est venu
- 8 When we refuse to suffer
- 9 This romance will be different forme
- 10 Old world
- 11 Our party will be on the beach tonight
- 12 When we refuse to suffer
- 13 Here it is
- 14 As my mother lay lying