Best of 1991

From the ghost of Marley to
The Ghosts That Haunt Me

ORTHWITH THE
toppermost of the
_ poppermost of 1991:
The KLF — The White Room,
Arista/BMG

Michael Becker

RECORD REVIEW

Two English guys skip through
the house of hip hop, walk off
with heads full of odd interior
decorating ideas and come up
with a very interesting white rsom.
This Mortal Coil — Blood,
4AD/PolyGram

Ivo Watts-Russell, 4AD record
label head.and producer af this
project, brings us something
marked by alternately elegant and
endearingly naive sentiments,
Fresh female voices dominate —
Pixies’ Kim Deal, Caroline Crawley
of Shelleyan Orphan, Throwing
Muses’ Tanya Donelly and Deidre
Rutkowski, cover versions of songs
by composers including Mary
Margaret O'Hara, Syd Barrett and
Rodney Crowell.

Jimmie Dale Gilmore — After
Awhile, Elektra/Warner

Discovering this Lubbock, Texas
country original is an experience
akin to stumbling upon Hank
Williams or Roy Orbison for the
first time. Most closely associated
with Butch Hancock and Joe Ely,
Gilmore solo shines with an
authenticity all too rare in most
modern music heard, regardless of
the genre.

Circle C, Geffen/MCA

The much-anticipated debut
from this Vancouver banc sounds
like some long-lost classic rock
album circa early 1970s. It’s pow-
eriul, enigmatic and addictive.
The La’s, Goi Discs/PolyGram

The young Liverpudiians are
anointed with the cachet of
Beatles pop godhead. te this case
the hyperbole is warranted.

Singer, songwriter and puitarist
Lee Mavers nails down a mercurial
pop sound and draws on the
spirited raw brashness of pre-
psychedelic 1960s British pop with
great success.

John Campbell — One
Believer, Elektea/Warner

Scary blues stop you dead in
your tracks and tingle the bones,
Louisiana-born Campbell, inthi-
enced by the likes of Lightnin’
Hopkins, has released a powerful
set. The bluesman growls through
the chillers and stakes his territory
at the point between despair and
deliverance.

The Harper Brothers — Artis-
try, Verve/PolyGram

This sextet of youny New York-
dase beboppers prove
themselves dett and intuitive
players. Drummer Winard Harper
and trumpeting brother Philip
Harper grew up in Baltimore ab.
sorbing the music of Max Roach,
Wynton Kelly and Cliffard Brown.
Antistry shimmers with energizing
jazz fireworks, true hard-bop
chops.

Pixies — Trompe Le Monde,
4AD/PolyGram

The Pasies’s abrasive surter-sci-
fi-punky-B-movie shockrock is
about the best thing hurtling down
the pike in these desperate days.

Black Francis’ raging antics have
us smelling the smoke from a gun
named extinction. Oh yeah,
there’s a neat song about sea
monkeys too.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse —
Weld/Arc, Reprise/Warner

Young is at his raging best with
Crazy Horse. The live discs cap-
ture the essence of the brilliant live
show brought to Vancouver earlier
this year. The set is a glorious 16-
hit zap of feedback thrash and
harmonic silk, The more rabid

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