Come - Don't Ask Don't Tell (expanded edition)

Come Don't Ask Don't Tell (expanded edition) Label Fire Records Erstveröffentlichung 29.10.2021 Format 2-CD Lieferzeit 1 – 3 Werktage Preis 14,95 € (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)

21er Reissue, ihre 2. LP (von 1994), die vielen als ihre beste gilt. Ich ziehe das Debut (damals auf Glitterhouse) noch leicht vor, aber die beiden Platten nehmen sich kaum etwas, gehören beide für mich zu den besten „Alt.(ernative) Rock-Werken überhaupt. Ungeheuer intensiver bis brennender Rock, der u.a. Elemente aus Grunge, Post Punk, Blues, sogar mal komplexeren Led Zeppelin enthält, roh wie raffiniert agieren kann, extrem lebendig, immer mal wieder zwischendurch kontrolliert und ruhig (aber rauh), mal dezent heavy, bestechend emotional, enorm beweglich (Rhythmik, die Songs als solche). Klasse relativ vielseitige Gitarren (gemessen an dem Genre), eine ebensolche Sängerin, sicherlich von Patti Smith beeinflußt. Richtig geradlinig sind eigentlich nur die 3 (längeren) Balladen, darunter das großartige German Song, sowie ein stürmischer begeisternder dem früheren US-Punk verwandter Track. Die 2. CD/LP enthält B-Seiten, unveröffentlichte Outtakes, ihre 1. Single, ihr letztes aufgenommenes Stück und ein Demo von German Song (das ich in Teilen sogar für noch besser halte). Der Rest der Songs ist nicht auf der Original-LP enthalten, mindestens 2 weitere entpuppen sich als wahre Perlen: Das dunkel eingefärbte leicht zurückgenommene atmosphärisch starke Who Jumped… sowie das melodisch feine Cimarron. Überflüssig sind nur ein kurzes Instrumental und ein etwas reduzierterer Track. Auch aus heutiger Sicht ausgesprochen frische und tolle Musik, Empfehlung, wer´s noch nicht hat! (detlev von duhn)

 In 1994 Come responded to the difficult-second-album stereotype with the hypnotic, intense and emotional masterpiece 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'. Featuring the original line-up of Thalia Zedek, Chris Brokaw, Sean O' Brien and Arthur Johnson, the Boston band broadened their sound by slowing down the tempos and creating a dense urban stream of consciousness that mixes noise, city blues and_ catharsis. The album hits you immediately as one of the greatest dissident records ever made. Lovingly remastered, this expanded edition includes 'Wrong Sides', an additional albums worth of b-sides and unreleased tracks, including the band's very first single 'Car' and their last recorded song, 'Cimarron', featuring this core line-up. These gems showcase the rawness and incredible growth of a band completely in command of their songwriting and at the same time paying homage to some of their punk roots with beautiful renditions of Swell Maps 'Loin Of The Surf' and X's 'Adult Books'. Also Includes new artwork with unearthed photos and fresh liner notes by the band.

Dissident from traditional rock this is a band playing music that thematically and structurally seems to pull from old Europa, from Eastern folk and modernist classical music as much as US and UK rock. Dissident from traditional ideas about singing and songwriting Thalia's (ex of Live Skull) presence on songs like 'Yr Reign' and the astonishing closer 'Arrive' isn't the pushy self-aggrandizement of a lead singer but the internal voice of the eternal migrant, someone who knows about survival, hiding, how living between multiple worlds can become its own refuge of distance, its own sanctuary of unbelonging Don't Ask Don't Tell emerged from a period of cohesion, a break from the tight and hectic touring schedule Come had been plunged into after the acclaim accorded 11:11, and you can hear that increased focus in every moment the layers of guitars and feedback are even more precise, the structuring of songs takes on a new openness and ambition, and the whole narrative arc of the record from 'Finish Line' to 'Arrive' is more exquisitely realised and sequenced.

"The songs on Don't Ask Don't Tell . . . had a kind of magic we didn't necessarily control ourselves." Chris Brokaw - interview with Neil Kulkarni, 2013.
"Devastating, with slow, burning songs that shudder and wince" NY Times

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