Alejandro Escovedo
Echo Dancing
70--90点相当
以前のアルバムから14曲の根本的に再アレンジしたバージョンを録音
Decades after 1992's Gravity, the solo debut that let the world know Alejandro Escovedo was one of America's great songwriters, the man has little if anything to prove, but he doesn't have to rest on his laurels. For 2024's Echo Dancing, Escovedo has taken a truly idiosyncratic look at his own songbook. He cut new, radically different versions of 14 songs from his back catalog. Reportedly, Escovedo had traveled to Italy to cut a set of fresh tunes with Don Antonio and Nicola Peruch, who collaborated with Escovedo on his 2018 album The Crossing, but at the last minute he came up with the idea of re-interpreting some of his older compositions instead, though fans can be excused for not recognizing all of Escovedo's oldies. A few of these songs are genuinely obscure, but even the best-known tracks get a truly thorough reworking, with scratchy guitars, lo-fi keyboards, and vintage drum machines often dominating the arrangements, making much of this seem like Escovedo's long-lost new wave or synth-punk LP. Tracks like "Sacramento & Polk" and "Wave" sound as if Escovedo, Antonio, and Peruch were aiming to be eccentric for its own sake (especially the former, which could pass as a B-side for the Normal's "Warm Leatherette"), though the more spare and atmospheric tone of "Outside Your Door" and "Last to Know" (dominated by droning keyboards and minimal electronic drones, confirming Escovedo's statement that Suicide was a major influence on him) fit the songs well while also casting them in a bold new light.
1951 年 1 月 10 日にテキサス州サンアントニオで 12 人兄弟の 1 人として生まれる
With These Hands
このアルバムは、90年代のバンドサウンドを
すごく感じさせる。