Product Description

Sixth studio album from musical collective Willard Grant Conspiracy. This is the follow-up to 2004's 'There But For TheGrace Of God' and sees lead-singer, Robert Fisher, return with contributions from Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts) and Dennis Cronin (Lambchop) among others. With a sound ranging from raw alternative rock through to folk and psychedelic blues, WGC have produced here a truly cross-genre album. Includesthe single 'Distant Shore'.

Track Listing

1. Distant Shore
2. Let It Roll
3. Dance With Me
4. Skeleton
5. Flying Low
6. Breach
7. Crush
8. Mary Of The Angels
9. Ballad Of A Thin Man
10. Lady Of The Snowline

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15482 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-27
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Another Classic
Six albums in (proper studio ones anyway) and WGC are still making music that surprises, moves and excites. I worried that they had run out of steam a bit around the time of "Everything's Fine", but "Regard the End" found them reinventing themselves with old folk songs and "Let It Roll" sees Robert Fisher establish himself as a songwriter of significant repute. There's a great deal of variety on this album from soft, gentle love songs to screaming frenzies about war and god knows what. I thought punk had done away with the point of nine minute songs but the title track is a rare example of a long, long song that never loses interest and maintains an increasingly frantic pace. I suppose WGC suffer from the fact that it is difficult to pigeon hole them into any one musical style, but that's their strength. File them under alt country; file them under Americana; file them under folk; file them under rock. It's all irrelevant. Just file them under pretty damn good.

Rock/blues kicks folky sound into touch.
Compared to the preceding albums, on 'Regard The End' it seemed WGC had hit upon a winning formula of gothic alt.country gloom, with songs about death, dying and ghosts on an album of style and substance.

Well, they've more or less thrown the formula away for this one. After a mournful opener that promises much Track 2 kicks offf with an extended rock-out, and carries on for 8 1/2 minutes much in the same vein. From here on the tracks continue in a more generally bluesy style, good in places (such as 'Skeleton' with its excellent guitar chorus) but somehow lacking real magic. 'Ballad Of A Thin Man' is vaguely psychedelic but clunky and then 'Lady Of The Snowline' echoes the wistful elegance of 'Regard The End' to remind you that WGC may not have changed totally.

Varied and variable 'Let it Roll' is a band experimenting but somehow not quite hitting the bullseye.

Terrible
As a fan of WGC for some years I have always felt confident buying the albums unheard and never been disappointed. They have made music which I lsten to over and over and never tire of. Big mistake this time. This is truly awful. Do not buy this album even if you have just found a wallet and you don't want your girlfriend to find out you have some money. If this is where WGC are heading now the fun is over.