The Brave And The Bold
- Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Band Name: Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Record Label: Overcoat / Domino
- Release Date: Jan 24, 2006
- Summary: The first collaboration between singer-songwriter Will Oldham and Chicago instrumental post-rockers Tortoise features 10 covers, including takes on songs by Elton John and Bruce Springsteen.
- Record Label: Overcoat / Domino
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 13 out of 28
-
Mixed: 14 out of 28
-
Negative: 1 out of 28
-
At times they near the hybrid jazz of The Mars Volta or even the plentiful jam bands that can be found on the boulevards of certain Eastern European shores, but Tortoise's effortless ingenuity and Prince Billy's sensuous and aged voice raise it to a much higher plane.
-
Twist[s] both the ultra-familiar and the obscure into awkward new shapes. [21 Jan 2006, p.35]
-
30Unbearably bland.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 3 out of 6
-
Mixed: 1 out of 6
-
Negative: 2 out of 6
-
EstanislaoB9
-
-
FValeron4Do not ignore Chris M. my friends. I'm a huge Oldham fan, but this record is nonsense. 'Tis a shame...
-
-
madsl3
-
-
Loveless [Reissue] - My Bloody Valentine
-
Ram [Deluxe Edition] - Paul & Linda McCartney
-
L.A. Woman - The Doors
-
On the Impossible Past - The Menzingers
-
Biokinetics [Reissue] - Porter Ricks
-
Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet
-
Reform Club - Claro Intelecto
-
Be Good - Gregory Porter
-
Crown and Treaty - Sweet Billy Pilgrim
-
1992-2012 - Underworld
-
Undun - The Roots
-
Accelerando - Vijay Iyer Trio
-
R.A.P. Music - Killer Mike
-
Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
-
The Earn - Yu
-
Europe - Allo Darlin'
-
Young Man In America - Anais Mitchell
-
Vee Vee [Remastered] - Archers of Loaf
-
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions - Billy Bragg/Wilco
-
Locked Down - Dr. John