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Revolver Soul |  | Artist: Alabama 3
Label: Hostage Music
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 2797
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5037300764511
ASIN: B003CP12FW
Release Date: May 3, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Oh Christ | | • | Bad To The Bone | | • | She Blessed Me - Alabama 3 & Johnny Borrell | | • | Jacqueline | | • | Fix It - Alabama 3 & Shane MacGowan | | • | Bad Girl - Alabama 3 & Tenor Fly | | • | If I Had A Diamond Ring | | • | Hostage - Alabama 3 & Tenor Fly/Daddy Freddy | | • | Keep Your Powder Dry | | • | Come Ye Believers | | • | Vietnamistan | | • | All God's Children | | • | Revolver Soul | | • | Oh Christ |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 11
 Pandora's Box Rocks May 8, 2010
The Wolf (uk)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Alabama 3 make very good music and pose one or two interesting
questions at the same time. Since their 1997 debut 'Exile On
Coldharbour Lane' they have produced an exceptional and elusive
body of work which, despite its unimpeachable quality has never
been quite enough to propel them into the upper-echelons of the
listening world. I can only assume that this is a state of affairs which
does not keep its creators awake at night. They appear happy, in their
own way, to bumble merrily along (in every and no particular direction)
taking with them anyone who might be game enough to endure and enjoy
the uncertainty that signing up for a magical mystery tour might entail.
Their new album 'Revolver Soul' is an extraordinary achievement. This is not
fusion, in any cheap sense of the word. This is sonic fission!
The many varied musical elements which explode and drift away from the
centre hang in the air like the shards of new yet strangely familiar elements;
Exotic and passionate and strange and tantalising and intoxicatingly wonderful!
The Wild West swagger of 'Jacqueline', with its jangly and angular sixties-tainted
guitar, wrapped up in layers of ghost-rider reverb; the secular gospel of 'She
Blessed Me', spilling delicious terrestrial soul out of every orifice (with a little
help from Johnny Borrell from Razorlight firing on all six cylinders!); Shane
MacGownan's curiously affecting dark and dirty contribution to 'Fix It' helping to
propel the 80's synth-rock inspired composition along with his own inimitable brand
of fractured and febrile voodoo; the dance-friendly shenanigans of 'Bad To The Bone',
stomping and growling and grinding like an angry animal (with hairy orange ears
and a wrinkled muddy snout!); the pithy contemporary political commentary of
'Vietnamistan' which stares the hypocrisy of the current Afganistan debacle in the
eye with both passion and unflinching anger (a credible contribution to the noble
history of anti-war songs); the funky fervour of 'All God's Children' (a long-lost
lovechild of Dr John and David Byrne!); the shuffling and faintly menacing ambience of
final track 'Revolver Soul', together with the fractured and fragmented outpouring of
'Oh Christ (Outro)', bringing the project to an ambiguous and tenderly twisted end.
Jake Black, Rob Spragg and their band of merry minstrels have never sounded better.
This is music of wisdom and vision which nonetheless never loses sight of the
crucial human imperative of having a damned good time once in a while!
Essential.
The Best Yet - Not Accoustic But Better For You April 30, 2010
J. Clifford (Birmingham UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has got to be the best Alabama 3 Album yet. Usually a fan of Alabama 3 Accoustic numbers and the more dark and rootsy Country/Western side of what they do, this album is mindblowingly good.
Building on the electronic-eclectic style that the Alabama 3 guys have always made for live gigs and occasional album offerings, this album takes it to the next level compared to the storylines MOR offered. Here you see an ever more urban, more bump and grind and dirty Alabama 3, but mastered in a slick and chunky style, perhaps more so than their last offering. Each tune is hooky without being generic or poppy and each has a definite vibe and feel to it, like a scene from a film or a nightmare or drug-induced haze.
A soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist on celluloid, the album offers a trip in a very real sense. I was sober when I listened to it, but I know I'll feel it whatever state of mind I am in. I just heard these tracks for the first time in high def having heard a couple of youtube previews which don't do them justice and am very enthusiastic about them already. At the same time, I know this one is going to be a grower as the quality is a leap up from MOR which I dug, but didn't enjoy as much as their first 3 albums.
If you've never heard Alabama 3 before, jump on board, but fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a real bumpy ride fellas...
A return to the form of their first two albums July 14, 2010
gudspirit (London)
I love 'Exile...' and a lot of tracks on La Peste but most of the other Alabama 3 albums in between have been disappointing, save the odd single like 'Johnny Cash'. This album is up there with the first two for me. They have managed to reproduce the thrill and energy of their live performances on record. Its like being at a festival in terms of the special guests and different styles of music included.
A3 back on top June 8, 2010
L. Firth
Alabama 3 are back with a great album, possibly their best since Cold Harbour Lane. The more I listen to it the better it gets. It starts with Oh Christ which neither my partner or I can say now without adding a Larry Love lilt and a wry smile. The album is absolutely fantastic, buy it you'll love it
Alabama 3 srtike gold again June 6, 2010
Gordon Wharton (Wallington, Surrey, England)
I've been an A3 enthusiast since Exile on Coldharbour Lane, always faintly worried that the group will fail to come up to scratch with their next disc. No sweat! They have never let me down - and Revolver Soul is well up to their usual high standard. "Vietnamistan" is a spine-chiller
and I couldn't find a track from "Intro" to
"Outro" that I could fault.
Everyone I've recommended the group to has been as impressed with them as I. Long may they jam!
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