Fast Man Raider Man
- Frank Black
- Band Name: Frank Black
- Record Label: Back Porch / Cooking Vinyl
- Release Date: Jun 20, 2006
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That rare double album with enough life in it to deserve that much real estate. [Aug 2006, p.208]
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78It's impossible to decide whether Black is tourist or guide in the land of dusty genres he evokes. [#21, p.102]
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It's Frank Black on his first real roll as a solo artist.
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70While it might've been more digestible as a single CD, Black strives for a wide scope that makes the album's elegant songcraft, musical telepathy and poetic unpredictability all the more satisfying. [Aug 2006, p.104]
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If it weren't for the album's studio polish, it'd feel like an extremely well-recorded concert -- it has the ebb and flow of a good live set, and its expansive warmth ends up making its length work in its favor.
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70[A] compendium of mostly refined Americana, albeit filtered through Black's uniquely cockeyed worldview.
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Black's voice is less interesting when he's not going postal with the Pixies; here he delivers dark visions wanly, with a nod to Nick Cave and a saving touch of camp.
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64There is a very good album here-- you just have to work for it.
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60The playing is impeccable, Black's subtly warped songs uneven. [Jul 2006, p.82]
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60The work of a middle-aged man with little to prove: amiable, assured, seldom surprising.
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60Fast Man Raider Man is simply too long, and, as such, a dilution.
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Where Black's muse was once shrieked and otherworldly, it's now distinctly earth-bound. [17 Jun 2006, p.37]
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Oddly, the songs here are actually quite good and are played , well but Black's nasal voice is at odds with some of the genres he's exploring. [#14]
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Fast Man Raider Man isn't your father's Frank Black; it's Frank Black for your father.
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50There is certainly enough solid material here for an album, but Black has committed one of the cardinal sins of modern music: this is too damn long.
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40While there are some moments of greatness (the menacing, psychedelic 'Dog Sleep', the mournful, pretty 'Don't Cry That Way'), the majority of this double album is dull, turgid and instantly forgettable.
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40At its worst, only the quality of the backing band distinguishes it from pub rock. [Jul 2006, p.112]
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Fast Man/Raider Man is sluggish country rock.
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30Much of it is endurance-defyingly dull. [Jul 2006, p.84]
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