Review of new album 'Rest Your Weary Head You Will Get Well Soon!'

 

From Culturedeluxe.com

 

Already quite famous in his native Germany, Konstantin Gropper (aka Get Well Soon) releases his debut album which doesn't so much roll off the tongue but effervescently fizzes - a spiky cocktail of alt.country, acoustic musicianship.

 

Titles as fantastic as 'If That Hat is Missing I Have Gone Hunting' and 'I Sold My Hands For Food So Please Feed Me' are as wonderful as they read, the former showing all the measured skill of an in-form Calexico while the latter builds to a majestic, cast-of-thousands climax. 'Witches! Witches! Rest Now in the Fire' is a lost drive-in movie soundtrack that conjures images of harlots tied to the stake, yet swaying in time, all doomed to 'burn in hell' because of their 'magic spell' while a gin-soaked crooner (Gropper) looks on.

 

'Your Endless Dreams' recalls the ethereal duets of Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan or a torpid Johnny Cash and June Carter and there's even a brave stab in reappropriating Underworld's timeless 'Born Slippy (nuxx)' as a clattering, semi-acoustic scuzz-ballad which works to a fashion but is unlikely to bewitch fans of the original.

 

As one of the best crafted albums to appear this year so far, getting well soon simply isn't the issue here, Gropper and co are clearly in rude musical health.

 

8/10

Eek, not much love for Get Well Soon.

 

oh well, here's some youtube love...

 

 

Get Well Soon - 'Christmas in Adventure Parks'

Edited June 5, 200817 yr by richie

Eek, not much love for Get Well Soon.

 

only got round to listeing to his stuff that is on my freebies over the last couple of days...

 

yeah could be something that grows on me as the tracks that i heard would file well with like the flaming lips or mercury rev...or something else kinda otherworldy like that

 

but think the voice is something you goota get used to as Konstantin sings like Jake Shillingford doing an impersonation of Scott Walker by the way of Ian McCulloch submerged Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in 1972....