I've been quietly obsessing over this album for months now. I've wanted to start a thread about it for almost as long but haven't managed to find anything really constructive to say about it, or a question worth asking. I've started loads of threads on it recently, and then abandoned them prior to clicking on the 'submit' button. Christ, I'm not even sure how many of you here have heard it, let alone like it.
It just doesn't seem to fit anywhere, other than as a truly brilliant piece of work. On the surface its sheer ordinariness suggests nothing of any real significance beyond a level of competence, but these are songs that sound like standards, like they weren't written so much as passed down. It's actually hard to imagine a time when 'I Shall be Released'
didn't exist, and yet they're all originals. It's staggering.
I'm tempted to just abandon this thread too but I'm gonna put it out there and see if it goes somewhere.
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