The Dirt Of Luck

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:44:25
Helium: Mary Timony (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, xylophone, bass, drums); Ash Bowie (guitar, piano, keyboards, bass); Shawn King Devlin (drums, percussion). THE DIRT OF LUCK, Helium's follow-up to its acclaimed EP PIRATE PRUDE, is Mary Timony's descent into the dark recesses of human emotion. From the opening track, "Pat's Trick," on which she sleepily sings "this one is scrawny and looks like me cause it's dirty and I'm so dirty too" over fuzzed-out '70s-style punk riffs, it's clear that this is by no means a comfortable, or even psychologically stable listen. What makes the album compelling is Timony's marriage of the grimy and depraved to the supple and beautiful, and her consistent ability to keep both music and lyrics off kilter. On "Superball" she compares her emotional state to the children's toy, over a swirling, sinister dirge of guitar and theremin-sounding keyboard. Helium's melodies are beautiful, even when pierced with dissonant wails and willfully off-key vocals, imbuing the work with a dark psychosexual charge. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the spellbindingly twisted pop of "Silver Angel" with its spiraling melody descending into chaos. THE DIRT OF LUCK is beautifully contradictory, the perfect forum for Mary Timony's trio.