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If you've already bought Bill Callahan's recent album A River Ain't Too
Much to Love, don't use it as an excuse not to buy this latest EP. You'll be
more than compensated by the two new tracks you'll find here, while both the
old ones are enhanced by videos: a lovely little animated sequence for Rock
Bottom Riser in minimal washed out red and black, plus a sad little tale of
a minimum wage hotel maid adding yet more woe to the already heartbreaking I
Feel Like The Mother of the World.
All four are the usual slices of beautifully disturbing Americana
melancholy, from the slow, acoustic Rock Bottom Riser's tale of
near-drowning, through I Feel Like The Mother of the World, where Callahan
comes across like an Antichrist Nick Cave denouncing the existence of
God, to Bowery's no-hope tale of a grandfather who can never stay out of
skid row for long. Fools Lament, the final song, does just what it says on
the tin.
You know what you're getting with Smog: misery, hopelessness, resignation
and despair, but it's all wrapped up in such beautiful tunes you know you'll
always forgive him. He's found his comfort in the darkness, so dive into the
murk and join him there.
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