Chris Robinson - This Magnificent Distance
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Track List: This Magnificent Distance
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- 40 Days - Chris Robinson & The New Earth MudDownload & Buy
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- Like A Tumbleweed In Eden - Chris Robinson & The New Earth MudDownload & Buy
- Vohen The Gold Wind Blows At The Dark End Of Night - Chris Robinson & The New Earth MudDownload & Buy
- ...If You See California - Chris Robinson & The New Earth MudDownload & Buy
- The Never Empty Table - Chris Robinson & The New Earth MudDownload & Buy
- Eagles On The Highway - Chris Robinson & The New Earth MudDownload & Buy
- Surgical Glove - Chris Robinson & The New Earth MudDownload & Buy
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Album Details: This Magnificent Distance
- Release Date:
- 06/29/2004
- Label:
- Vector Records
- UPC:
- 093624882121
Pro Reviews: This Magnificent Distance
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews For those attracted as well as put off by the sundrenched and shambolic hippie optimism on New Earth Mud, forget it. While This Magnificent Distance is not a pessimistic record, it is a darker one (texturally at least), and its musical polestar is a step into something murkier, more spacious and varied, and better articulated, yet less defined. This is most certainly a rock record. (What else could it be?) But as a songwriter, Robinson has grown by leaps and bounds (though he claims some of these tunes were written before New Earth Mud). His collaboration with producer and multiinstrumentalist Paul Stacey has borne wonderful fruit here as has the addition of veteran bass ace George Reiff. The opener, "40 Days," with a ballsout guitar riff and swirling organ line, is one of the most lyrically sophisticated tracks on the set. Walking a razor between the delirious metaphors of Bob Dylan and the punchy tight lines of John Lennon, it is an exhortation to the needy side of dangerous love and flight. But the sheer sonic wallop it packs makes it the obvious first single, and Black Crowes fans will flip for this one. But it is countered immediately with the dreamy psychedelia of "Girl on the Mountain," with its layered bluesy guitars and shimmering drums. The chorus rocks, but the rest of it rolls. Topheavy crackle returns on "Mother of Bone," which will undoubtedly turn into a jamming standard live. Blues and a slippery backbeat weave acoustic guitars into the verse as well as burning distorted lead riffs into the refrain. But it's the organic percussion that splays it all open into some kind of simmering sonic drift. The beautiful Westernthemed cuts, such as "Train Robbers," "Like a Tumbleweed in Eden," and the gorgeous "When the Cold Wind Blows at the Dark Edge of Night," are genrewarping textural studies in psychedelic production and poetic song structures. The music is progressive, and wonderfully intricate; it stands completely outside the mark of anything Robinson has done before. The loose country stroll of "...If You See California" is the album's most beautiful love song, and is partnered with "Eagles on the Highway," steeped in American mythic iconography. The album comes back to tough, lean rock roll on the set's final three selections, "Surgical Glove," "Sea of Love," and the closer, "Piece of Wind." They take the gentility and moodiness of the middle section of the record and break it all down to lean, mean basics once more with brilliant instrumental interplay between Stacey and Reiff. This Magnificent Distance is a worthy and wonderfully engaging testament to Robinson's creative evolution. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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