Probing the psychol

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

NGELS EMBRACE

Canada; Neil Young

shines a light; Elvis
Costello revisit reveals rari-
ties.

Grievous Angels — Watershed,
Jimmy Bcyle Records 1993

Guitarist, singer aad song-
writer Chuck Angus ranks among
the essential voices to be heard
in Canada today.

Well, let’s step back from that
statement a bit. His actual
singing voice does happen to be
as flat as most of this country, but
boy, does he tell some stories.

Our stories, in fact. Heart-
wrenching, big country elemen-

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Tyson chattor thers.

Small personal stragles and
Mangia Vie tones are turned
grand and epic in songs firms
rooted in place RitMfand,
Grand Netrows and sundry
paints across this great nation ot
Ours,

That Angus has chosen to five
in an abandened silver mining
town (Cobak, Ontario) north ot
the watershed, speaks volumes of
the perspective trom which he
cones.

The music of French Canade
and the Maritimes provide the
matrix for much ef Watershed.
There’s all kinds of truth and grit
to be tound on this hidden trea-
sure,

ia] ace :
Neil Young and Crazy Horse —
Sleeps With Angels, Reprise
Records/WEA 1994
The ghost of Nirvana’s Kurt
Cobain presides over this outing.
Young frames what is fundamen-

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to present the socal Canmtestat a
cultare op viedenee and aroral
dog-eat-dorsedness,

The reduced essence of the
matter is tound in the track Blue
Eden.

Young's slow thunder guitar
rolls Gutall ragged sustain and
feedback as he intones:
“Embracing, distorting, support:
ing, comforting, cans incing you,
consoling vou, controlling you,
destroving you, allover you.”

The blue chill is lifted
momentarily on Piece of Crap, a
hilarious and stoppy flat-out
rocker,

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Elvis Costella & The Attractions
—Imperial Bedroom, Rykadisc/
Denon 1994

The digital re-issues of this
great catalogue of pop output
continue to bring to the surface a
wealth of formerly rare and unre-
leased material.

Almost Blue, Costello’s
Nashville sojourn, is generously
fortitied with five live tracks from
a gig in Aberdeen, and six adai-
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deperal Gedroon, the band’s
most elevant CHO in terras al
preducton and tastrumentation,
comes wilh nine tracks ol
extended play,

As with the reissues that
came besare, these discs include
thorough notes trom Costello
about the history of cach ef the
projects,

What's left to say? The guy is
a pop Music xenius and this
series is a must-have for jars.

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