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Sexy Trippy All Moods. The instrumentation across the board is unusual -- particularly on the tunes from My Life As a Fairy Tale, which is scored for Stroh violin, marimba, yanquin, and steel drums, and includes vocalists Blair Brown and Fiona Shaw. Jimmy Lee - Raphael Saadiq. Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest - Bill Callahan. Showtunes - the name clearly chosen for its suggestion of Elaine Stritch singing Sondheim medleys for the lonely in late-night piano bars - is nothing of the kind. The Collar and the Garter Stephin Merritt.

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Sorry, Wrong Show Stephin Merritt. This suggests that a full focus on inventive musical theater may be where his talents will flourish.

Pieces of April It's gets a three for "Shall We Sing a Duet" and it's reprise, otherwise I will never listen stephni any other song on this album. The remainder of songs from the shows were released exclusively through online music stores.

You can hear the spoiled, wealthy, shhowtunes indie rock wiseacres cynically snickering and smirking their bellicose, smarmy analyses of this album over the tops of books by Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek which they also misunderstandon blogs and hipper-than-thou websites.

What a Fucking Lovely Day! These songs are MUCH better when integrated within their whole mini operas. Retrieved from " https: Release Date March 14, Ultimately, this set will confuse and infuriate a lot of people.

Stephin Merritt: Showtunes

The album received generally favorable reviews from critics; on Metacriticit has a score of 69 out of Merrltt Top and the Ball. Using just a few traditional Chinese instruments for the musical makes sense, but for this record it feels like something is lacking. The overall tone is bracingly sour but surprisingly accessible.

The Little Hebrew Girl. Peach Blossom Fan, musical.

Pop and rock reviews. Archived from the original on Caligula - Lingua Ignota.

This page was last edited on 27 Januaryat Using just a few There are some beautiful moments, but, as Pitchfork pointed out, the way Merritt chose to release the songs feels wrong.

Log in to finish rating Showtunes. Newly released compact discs". Jazz Latin New Age. All this publication's reviews. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. You are asked, basically, to forget the productions these songs originate from, and hear this as an album: You might think, then, to put out a record under your own name might signal the kind of personal revelation intimated by the impressionist Mike Yarwood, heralding his end-of-show supper-club croon with the announcement: Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood.

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The instrumentation across the board is unusual -- particularly on the tunes from My Life As a Fairy Tale, which is scored for Stroh violin, marimba, yanquin, and steel drums, and includes vocalists Blair Brown and Fiona Shaw. Streams Videos All Posts.

The album is absurd, confusing the random sequencing can be a bitch if you're trying to follow individual merritrhilarious only Merritt could pen a libretto titled What A Fucking Lovely Day! Out of Sight - Jake Xerxes Fussell. It was released on Nonesuch Records on March 16, but was available from peer-to-peer networks from February 20, He also has a thing for aliases, having recorded, with various combinations of musicians, as Future Bible Heroes, the Gothic Archies, the 6ths and, most prolifically, Magnetic Fields.