Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham- L'Avventura, Jetset Records 2003

Written by Jen Rajkowski
Published May 12, 2003
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Your Baby is sung by Phillips and was originally available as a demo on her home page, appearing here touched up and featuring her sultry sleepy voice. Britta sings, "You make me happy, come on let's, do it again". There is no hidden meaning. Unlike Dean's seductions (hypnotizing a pancake, for example), Britta's lyrics are straight to the point, instead of playing a game of Pup Tent, she goes right for the kill. Sexy teasing shrouded behind her candy sweet voice.

Threw it Away is an Angel Corpus Christi song off of her release, White Courtesy Telephone. Dean's guitar adds an interesting layer to this cover making it more textured and brooding than the original. Britta sings Knives From Bavaria, the track that is my favorite piece off the album. She sings "I dreamed you swallowed a pill called Euphoria" in a lazy pre-coffee alto that is accented by the backing addition of Dean's equally sleepy baritone. "Drink me and drown me, I like you I do"- a Lynchian sort of love song. A different version of this song, with different lyrics was used in the yet to be released film Piggie (featuring Dean as the leading male, a heroin addict/credit card thief).

Random Rules is a bittersweet story of adultery written by David Berman of The Silver Jews. My favorite line is "They make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake." This song is oddly beautiful in its sadness and is sung by Wareham.

Dean foreshadowed the cover of Indian Summer, this time the Doors version, when I last saw them live at NYC's Knitting Factory. "There are a lot of songs called Indian Summer" he quipped before launching into Luna's cover of Beat Happening's song of the same name. What's next? Lee Hazlewood? Pedro the Lion? Is this, as their site touts, a "soundtrack to get lucky to"? L'Avventura is indeed a perfect post-brunch, mimosa scented, balmy Sunday afternoon excuse to get back under the sheets.

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