The Skull Palace

Original album of Will Oldham as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, who had already worked under the name Palace Brothers, Palace Music, or more soberly, under his own name for a harbinger of this Joya, I See a Darkness is a beauty fragile and austere folk that calls for meditation and contemplation.
If ny intends influences, pell-mell, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt or Elliott Smith, it is primarily the work of a good company man and has a real personality he s 'acts. On sober and spare instrumentation, the bottom defining the shape, Will be held to the melodies of songs in chiaroscuro where his desperate voice of great wonders. Some guitars, acoustic of course but also in electric light line, a rhythm section never doing more than necessary, a piano or organ melodic support, few choruses time to time and that's it, and c ' is enough like that because, during 37 minutes, it is above all the songs, all outstanding invoice, talking. What they say? That life is not rosy, that love ends badly, the worst, probably, watching us, in short it's not joy. It put you off? You are wrong, the beauty is the price, the price of suffering, a submission to the inevitable hazards of despair by which he must pass to, perhaps, see the light.
I See a Darkness, while simple, is an album of cathartic splendor just bluffing that never ceases to recommend to all those and all those who, far from excessive tricks often used by musicians creating pathos by sound than by the substance, can appreciate a simple and beautiful music, a refined and proud folk as we do not cross often. I See a Darkness? Perhaps the summit of Will Oldham discography, which is saying something.

1. A Minor Place 3:43
2. Nomadic Revery (All Around) 3:58
3. I See a Darkness 4:49
4. Another Day Full of Dread 3:10
5. 4:31 Death to Everyone
6. Knockturne 2:17
7. Mary Magdalen 2:31
8. Song for the New Breed 3:24
9. Today I Was an Evil One 3:52
10. Black 3:46
11. Raining in Darling 1:54

Will Oldham
with
Paul Oldham
Bob Arellano
Colin Gagon
Peter Townsend