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Music > Albums > Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back (2010) Retail CD
added on February 13, 2010, at 00:32 by ssvril

I don't understand some of the reviews on this page by people who seem to buy music like baked beans or toothpaste. Music should surprise us, disturb us, even. And this album does just that - not by means of pyrotechnics or production tricks, but by means of some stripped-down, subtly emotional readings of other artists' songs, delivered in a mercilessly exposed voice which sometimes cracks, sometimes whispers, sometimes coos and only occasionally resorts to grandstanding. The instrumentation is orchestral (sometimes piano) and there's little in the way of production trickery or genre stylings. This is naked music, a great interpreter of song sparingly, sometimes startlingly framed. Most shocking of all are the radical reworkings of two very well-known modern anthems - David Bowie's Heroes and Radiohead's Street Spirit. The latter almost stopped my heart.

front 3542 x 3369 px

back 4233 x 3268 px

cd 2844 x 2844 px

cd_2 3384 x 3427 px

inside 2904 x 2796 px

inlay 4262 x 3297 px