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Joya
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Track Listing
- O Let It Be
- Antagonism
- New Gypsy
- Under What Was Oppression
- The Gator
- Open Your Heart
- Rider
- Be Still & Know God (Don't Be Shy)
- Apocolypse, no!
- I Am Still What I Meant To Be
- Bolden Boke Boy
- Idea & Deed
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #83601 in Music
- Released on: 1997-11-03
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
It's hard to know what to make of Will Oldham, partly because he refuses ever to reveal his biography, partly because his music is opaque to the point of total blackness. With various Palace incarnations, Oldham has obsessed over lower than lo-fi quasi-country music, and his first full length solo album, continues with his raging sonic sermons of apocalypse, despair, evil, and sex. The sound moves slow as a 101-degree day in his native Louisville; the overall effect is troubling. --Roy Francis Kasten
CD Description
In 1997 Palace mastermind Will Oldham decided to stop playing the name game and admit that he was a solo act. For JOYA,Oldham stripped away the stylistic experimentation and creeping sonic strangeness that characterised previous efforts to make the most straightforward album of his career. Most ofthe country/folk influence is gone, replaced by a gently insistent indie-rock throb. The lyrics are as inscrutable as ever, poetic and expressive but rarely linear or subject-specific. A trio that includes Tortoise's David Pajo provides simple, steady backing as Oldham's troubled tenor relates these tales of personal upset and dislocation.
Customer Reviews
joya = a joy
I like Will's early albums more than his recent output. This is not out of some "i-liked-him-before-the-Cash-cover" airs and graces - I think these albums are more intriging and have an incredible charm. It is the range of emotions in just one song, the allusive lyrics and also the interesting photogprahs and packaging. I remember being quite captivated by the picture on the back of Oldham reclining in a sumptuous looking house.
Typically dark
A lovely album brimming with delicious despair. My wife finds herself humming along to a track and the next one is about lost hope and she starts whingeing about it being 'unhappy music'. Not as strong as I See a Darkness, but I love all of Mr Oldham's music.
