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‘The King And Queen Of Siam’ is sexy and sinuous, while ‘Six Sixty Six’ is good-time country about the coming of the Antichrist, faintly reminiscent of ‘Tangled Up In Blue’. ‘Dog Gone’ has a great emotional sublety with its lazy, bitter soft warm and news/noose pun. ‘Back To Rome’ again has something of the Tom Petty about it, Frank’s voice raw and powerful and enthused as he yells “I believed in Cupid/I thought I’d be kissing you for all my life/Guess I’m just a little stupid…”. The opener itself is a strong one, with a great “WOAHH-OHH-OHH” refrain and Frank’s bitchy hook of “who needs that now!, as well as some lyrics about angels mating with early women and their offspring becoming giants (obvs). Eventually it was released through the eMusic service, the first album by a major artist to be distributed through the internet. Ironic first words, as the album’s release had been delayed by a year, with Frank’s label American Recordings displeased by the raw sound. “OK, I’m ready,” mutters Frank as the warm and fuzzy ‘All My Ghosts’ kicks off in a comedic false start. ‘Off’ is tense and mean, while ‘St Francis Dam Disaster’ has a rich, Dylanish drama, making an album of variety, but also, sir, of quality. Or as Frank puts it on the moody ‘Bullet’ “If you don’t like my melody I’ll sing it in a major key… everybody’s all aboard… let’s take it back to that minor chord”.The addition of Eric Drew Feldman on piano livens up Frank’s now taut bar-band groove on the Satanic Springsteen vibe of ‘Stupid Me’. The days, if they ever existed, when he cared about being the Great Black Francis with a generation hanging off his every howl are long gone Frank’s having fun on the likes of the silly ‘Robert The Onion’ and the wonky-tonk ‘Hermaphroditos’, but this time we are too, and it does feel like he’s making a little more effort to grab the attention on this album.
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Right in the year when Jack White and his favourite sister were grabbing the world by the scruff of the neck with their garage blues, Frank Black was perfectly prefiguring Jack’s later weirdo country guise. 2‘Dog In The Sand’ (Frank Black And The Catholics, 2001)