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AllMusic Review by Dean Carlson
Valentine Six's
world is one of silk-lined nightclubs, trachea-puncturing cigarettes,
and smack-addled East Berlin poverty, and as such they have atmosphere
to spare. Songs generally try to keep the listener off-balanced with
grumbling bass and driven and deranged sax, led by the black baroque
larynx of Parker Valentine. The problem's that if there's a knowing emotional showmanship here, it succeeds far less than for the band's obvious heroes Nick Cave and the Tindersticks.
"Motel Lights," for example, or "Blood Orange" and "Sonic" romanticize
the lowered gaze of anti-social performance rather than try to recognize
and destabilize it. It's dark lounge music, but intentionally dark.
Unstructured (to a point), and yet garish, sinewy, one-paced, and
certainly camp.
Tracklist
| 1 | Ghost Face | |
| 2 | Sonic | |
| 3 | Motel Girl | |
| 4 | Thin Red LIne | |
| 5 | Blood Orange | |
| 6 | Silencer | |
| 7 | Tucson | |
| 8 | Always is My Name | |
| 9 | Bad Penny | |
| 10 | Kill Street | |
| 11 | Motel Lights |
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