| Foster, Josephine / A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing |
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| Album: | A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Foster, Josephine | Added: | Aug 2006 | |
| Label: | Locust Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-11-05 | Pull Date: | 2007-01-07 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 31 | Dec 17 | Dec 10 | Dec 3 | Nov 26 | Nov 19 | Nov 12 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 14, 2014: | Music Casserole Verschwiegene Liebe | 4. | Jun 11, 2011: | Songs: Cantan pts. I & II Auf Einerburg | |
| 2. | Mar 02, 2013: | Music Casserole Auf Einerburg | 5. | Oct 10, 2009: | lost and found Auf Einerburg | |
| 3. | Jul 08, 2011: | Music Casserole Auf Einerburg | 6. | Sep 19, 2009: | Music Casserole Auf Einerburg |
| Album Review |
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| Ben Wolfson Reviewed 2006-10-14 | ||
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Freaky-deaky acid folk ... Lieder? Awesome Chicagoan Foster sings a set of seven German lieder (by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf), accompanying herself on guitar, in, putting it lightly, a highly untraditional way. Some of the songs are given a treatment that'll be familiar from her previous solo albums and Born Heller (and Supposed guitarist Brian Goodman appears on a few tracks), but others, especially six, are utterly unexpected. This is a really fantastic, innovative, interesting album; very atmospheric, and Foster's singing is excellent. Everyone should play it. Best: 6, 1, 2 **1: overdubbed and out of synch vox for a far-away ghostly sound; Goodman contributes a slow psychy electric guitar solo that seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the track but absolutely fits. 2: Stately melody; Nicoesque singing; a capella middle; ends with soloing. 3: Emerges out of swirls, understated. Kind of spacy (not in a space-rock way). 4: Sounds like there's a creaky floorboard here; sort of a (creepy) back porch feel. Starts after 9 seconds, ends with creaking for a while. 5: Title means "melancholy", which actually applies less to this song than any other on the album. Relatively unadorned guitar and restrainedly soaring vocals. A little harmonica. **6: Absolutely amazing long (11') song, starts off with ghostly singing. Gradually increasing background thrums and wobbles eventually take over Foster's voice entirely in what's practically slo-mo noise sludge, courtesy Plastic Crimewave. 7: Folky strum-a-long, male background vox. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | An Die Musik | 4. | Die Schwestern | |||
| 2. | Der Konig In Thule | 5. | Wehmut | |||
| 3. | Verschwiegene Liebe | 6. | Auf Einerburg | |||
| 7. | Nane Des Deliebten | |||||