CD released: Jul 19, 2010
Too Long In is Condition is the sixth album from young Scotsman Alasdair Roberts and it shows he's an old hand at songcraft - and not just his own, but the songs of the ancients, the nearancients and their friends, It is a collection of traditional ballads, the third such in the discography of Roberts, following 2005's No Earthly Man (produced by Bonnie Will Oldham) and last year's critically acclaimed Spoils, which The Wire listed as their 4th best album of 2009! As ever before, grave robber Roberts circles the elders warily, with suspicion, fascination and adoration, His versions of their songs are no slavish renditions, instead, new life and color pours from the speakers, with each song playing out in a way that Alasdair and his friends felt best about, The album features the talents of an international cartel of musicians and together they rock and reel, with voices raised in harmony and hands and feet stomping the beat, unfurling a range of moods that comprise the endless songs of life. |
