What makes Strangelet more immediately accessible is more variation due to songs with more aggressive stances - that's relatively speaking, however. This is still a quiet album, in general, but distorted guitars are peppered more liberally throughout than have been in the recent past, such as "Chain Lightning," "Johnny Guitar," or "Raise The Spirit" which resurrects some good old loping T. Rex rhythms. The heart of the album, however, like most of what Phillips does, is in the more melancholy material - because he does that so well - and there's plenty of that for the listener, new and old, to dive into. Strangelet might just be the most well-rounded set of music that Grant-Lee Phillips has released yet.
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Article comments
1 - tendraftsdeep
As always, a great work of art from Grant.
2 - Connie Phillips
Congrats! This article has been forwarded to the Advance.net websites and Boston.com (going live soon).
3 - Travis Duncan
I have to disagree with this article on one point
I really feel that Grant Lee Buffalo and Grant Lee Phillips have two different sounds. Granted(hahah)
Grant is still the voice in both, but the reverb with Grant Lee Buffalo makes them a lot more rock,
and Grant has drifted a lot more to what genreheads call alt folk. I hear a difference in Grant's voice as well. It seems strong with Grant Lee Buffalo, i mean really insanely strong , with great high notes,
however, I think solo, grant has moved away from just vocals but putting together a more complete musical arrangement such as is heard on "Fountain of Youth"
Travis