After "Lucinda Williams" and "Car Wheels .." First strange getting used to. A consistent further, more intimate expectant Lucinda Williams. Very carefully produced, never overweight, reduced to the most essential features - impressionistic sound swab, the moods paint like Monet's Light Impressions. And the voice - very close to the microphone, even the slightest touch is captured (my tip: the panel listen with headphones - which is like a whisper Lu directly into the ear and ensures tingling in the spine ..). Very good guitar work, thrifty, "knopflermäßig" without the boring tedium and a downright modern groovy Jim Keltner: did not think that this "I'm-all-this-Drummer" something draufhat..Die songs tell again these sad, bittersweet or wild challenging stories that we all love so: a little 'what of Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" (the sadness of the death scene of the sheriff with Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in the background) - but 10 years later and already at the beginning of knowing how it will end. Without Peckinpah's heroism, banal, everyday. Even the title song "Lonely Girls" is the key - it is one of them, she knows what she sings. Or "out of touch" z. B. with this gorgeous abducted beat that still propels and one could listen for hours and Lus text about alienation, lax become relationships, friends who have nothing more to say and only embarrassed with the feet scrape through to the point where one meets on the highway and briefly zuhupt..Die furious explosion of "Essence" - it sounds like an addict and also uses this Fixer jargon, rocking and hard. But above all, "Blue" - for me the absolute highlight of the album: Lus commitment to melancholy. And anyone who has ever experienced how she brings this song on stage, who knows that it is their every word seriously. This song is Miss Williams Pure.
