ack is back, and

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

LACK IS back in fine

form; Brown updates

funk; Proclaimers praise
the right life; Daytona
impresses.

Frank Black - Teenager of The
Year, 4AD/PolyGram 1994
More sharp brilliance from
pop’s pre-eminent arbiter of
American junk culture. Twenty-
two short, sharp shocks in all, the
disc opens with a frenetic paean to
Pong, the granddaddy of video —
games. Black's stream of con-
sciousness lyrics flirt with sensory
overload and find meaning in
happy random juxtapositions.
_ Along the way, Black cruises the
_ heavens} defends the Three
Stooges and travels the turnpikes
- of southern California.
s "The former Pixies frontman
. consolidates the raw, free-wheel-
ing sounds explored earlier on his
- self-titled debut. Eric Drew...
; Feldman, who co-produces with
’ Black, provides a sophisticated
- keyboard counterpoint to the gui-
tars and solid bass work. Former.

Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago con- .

tributes four tracks’ worth of mad
guitar lead.

Teenager of Year drives hard
without plodding or belaboring
the point. There’s a brutal,
inevitable glory alyout it.

James Brown ~ Universa! James,
Scotti Bros. Records 1993

James Brown, Mr. Short Fuse
Dynamite, fost in a sea of children
weaned on his eternal funk and on
rip-off artists who sample his
force-of-nature energy to bolster
their own pale atternpts at musical
excitement, didn’t register last year
with this release.

Universal James is loaded with
tension. Brown’s gritty screams
wake the dead while smooth pro-
duction work by Jazzie B, Robert
Clivilles and David Cole (C&C
Music Factory) and Brown himself,
assure that even the most mori-
bund among just can’t help but
animate a few key body parts.

it’s that funky bootie wipgle

_thang, but the Godfather of Soul
also warks some consciousness
raising into the sweaty mix. He’s
about getting right with mutual
respect and brotherly love — the
real soul food.

Welcome back

The Proclaimers - Hit The
Highway, Chrysalis Records 1994
The Scots strike again with theic
aggressively untrendy brand of.
music and insidious entreaties.
This collection of preachy jin-
gles bluntly proclaims an affirma-
tion of marriage, children and a
Christian God. The darker side of

THE PROCLAIMERS

the twin brothers Reid surfaces
briefly. on Don’t Turn Out Like
Your Mother as they give the gears
to mothers-in-law. Nasiy boys.

Hit The Highway hits its low.
point with a listless butchering of
Otis Redding’s These Arms Of
Mine. .

The righteously faithful have a
fine soundtrack in Hit The
Highway. Otherwise, the novelty
of penance has worn thin.

Daytena ~ Chicane, Zulu
Recards 1994

This debut from Vancouver is
impressive. There's lots of feed-
back, drifting discordant guitar
jangle happening. Dreamy drone

vocals and hip-hop beat for back-
bone.

Daytona foreshadows greater
things to come from this band with
Like Heaven, a track where every-
thirig comes together with a mon-
ster riff anda spotlight on the
voice of Jenny Lundgren.

Chicane was recorded, mixed

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some of the best the contempurary
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