Horsebox - LEATHERFACE CD
Product Description Leatherface is back with Horsebox, their first full-length studio album in seven years. This record soars and rampages through 14 songs of "punk attitude and moderistic pop." Fans of Moterhead and Tom Waits will dig this. Review Frankie Stubbs has delivered another manifesto of emotional overload, of vocal heart meltdown on record for a solid 47 minutes. Delivering the first Leatherface album of new material in six years, Horsebox is another stunning achievement of brain, brawn, guts, pathos, and liquid fire. Even without the gut-wrenching cover of Nick Caves Ship Song, its clear these guys dont just pummel you senseless -- they flat out know how to play, and Stubbs writes and arranges in an extremely mature manner that feels more complex the more you hear the individual parts. Horsebox is so charged, its as stubborn to get into as it is to do descriptive justice to, but it also entices from the first play. Stubbs continues to work in mid-tempo material, with passages where the guitars drop out or merely pick at power-lead parts. He and second guitarist Leighton Evans are at their call-and-answer best on the bridge of the most melodic killer Closing Time, following a passage thats merely bobbing bass and tremendous drumming. Lorrydrivers Son and Box Jellyfish are two more melodic, meticulously picked gems that give some break from the gale. A criticism? Perhaps they could go out on a limb a little more. It would be good to show more people the deeper ranges of Stubbs tastes and abilities. That such a bomb like this could be dropped is some kind of miracle -- a marvel doubled when one considers that this band was thought dead forever a few years ago. Like all the hottest LPs, it will take you a few plays for its more discriminating qualities to take hold, for its emotional center to reveal itself amidst the volcanic eruptions, aside from the sound of Stubbs headlong imploring. And once it does, watch out. --Jack Rabid, All Music Guide
Specifics
- Album: Horsebox
- Artist: LEATHERFACE
- Label: BYO
- Genre: Rock
- MPN: BYO 068CD
Tracklist
1. Sour Grapes
Written-By - Stubbs*
Written-By - Stubbs*
2. Evo Pop
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
3. Soundbites
Written-By - Burdon*, Stubbs*
Written-By - Burdon*, Stubbs*
4. Watching You Sleep
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
5. True Colours
Written-By - Steinberg*, Kelly*
Written-By - Steinberg*, Kelly*
6. Grip
Music By - Stubbs*, Evans*
Words By - Laing*
Music By - Stubbs*, Evans*
Words By - Laing*
7. Choice
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
8. Lorrydrivers Son
Written-By - Stubbs*
Written-By - Stubbs*
9. Ship Song
Piano - Fred "Pang Tang" Purser*
Written-By - Nick Cave
Piano - Fred "Pang Tang" Purser*
Written-By - Nick Cave
10. Eddy Bumble
Written-By - Stubbs*
Written-By - Stubbs*
11. Closing Time
Written-By - Stubbs*
Written-By - Stubbs*
12. Wing Ding
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
13. Kill DJ's
Written-By - Stubbs*
Written-By - Stubbs*
14. Box Jellyfish
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
Written-By - Stubbs*, Evans*
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