by
Thalia Zedek
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Sep 14, 2004
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Here we have an artist who's been making music for nearly 25 years and this album sounds fresh and new. This album is, by far, the best record I've heard this year.
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One of her most assured and intimate records to date.
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The WireA defining album that should lift her out of the 'sounds like' territory. [#248, p.65]
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Zedek somehow twists her troubled characters and haunting tunes into things of beauty.
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Under The RadarThere is real emotion and beauty to be found in her yearning. [#7]
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Her voice has matured to a fine saw-toothed rasp, and carries with it the echoes of every hard minute through which she's lived.
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Like Richard Buckner, Zedek holds the amazing capacity to make the saddest stuff compelling, even heartening.
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The cumulative effect of Trust Not is a wearying one.
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This is powerful stuff, unrelenting and dark.
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What makes Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness a career highlight for Zedek is how she avoids misery while continuing to confront emotional storminess.
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Zedek is still shrouded in her aesthetic darkness, is still hungry, still driven; her music is still driven by the same ghosts that've haunted her throughout her career.
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StevenTNov 26, 2004