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- Artist(s): Jesse Paris Smith, Patti Smith, Kamran Sadeghi, Simone Merli
- Summary: Originally performed by Patti Smith's daughter Jesse Paris Smith and the Soundwalk Collective (who are Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli, and Kamran Sadeghi), Patti Smith appears with them on this tribute to Nico, the Velvet Underground singer who died riding her bike in 1988.
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- Record Label: Sacred Bones
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The WireOct 21, 2016A compelling tribute from one iconic vocalist to another. [Sep 2016, p.59]
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UncutSep 8, 2016It's solemn stuff. [Oct 2016, p.39]
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Sep 8, 2016If Soundwalk Collective's music is often lovely but understated, Patti Smith's vocals give Killer Road the pale fire that makes it come alive; she never sounds like Nico, but she ably brings forth the voice of a poet facing her final crisis, and Smith understands that just well enough to communicate it to the audience.
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Nov 14, 2016Alternately haunting, beautiful and tragic, Killer Road is a fascinatingly immersive listening experience that requires no previous knowledge of Nico’s work to appreciate.
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Sep 8, 2016One can imagine the project’s subject would have ultimately preferred the more understated tracks, concerted in their muted menace--focused on the task of creating a cinematic impression of the unknowable.
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Q MagazineSep 8, 2016Esoteric but oddly compelling record. [Oct 2016, p.110]