JOHNSTON, DANIEL
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
LP

30,90

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Artiste culte de la scène alternative américaine, Daniel Johnston [1961-2019] est né à Sacramento. Il a vécu et travaillé près d’Austin (Texas). Soutenu par Sonic Youth, Larry Clark, David Bowie ou encore Matt Groening, il est avec ses incroyables mélodies et son sens de l’interprétation parfois rudimentaire considéré comme le père putatif de l’Anti-Folk ; un mouvement qui fait son apparition à New York au milieu des 80’s, puisant ses racines aussi bien dans le punk, le rock garage que le folk traditionnel américain.

 

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Welcome to My World turns out to be a lovely package, and probably as much Johnston as the average listener will need; it’s also notably short on the Johnston recordings that sound harrowing and depressed enough to be difficult listening. Lost and Found, the 45-year-old Johnston’s newest album, is somewhat harder to recommend.

These days, Johnston is better known as a visual artist than as a singer-songwriter, and this makes sense: His magic-marker drawings come from the same place as those early recordings, executed in private and for the sheer expression of it. His music, on the other hand, has come to require collaboration, something Johnston doesn’t seem well-suited for: At times it feels like the backing band has shoved him to the front of the stage and started improvising bland, inappropriate things behind him, self-conscious and unsure how to really enter into his songs, leaving him sounding lost and awkward.

He also seems a lot more labored and sluggish, in his performance and his emotions, than as a young man, which is where some of the aforementioned fretting comes in: Some of that is surely the result of how medicated he is, bad for his music but good for him. The songs center more and more on that lovelessness, which surely weighs harder on a middle-aged man– more and more songs revolve around funeral home Laurie– and some of them still hit. But it probably says something that the most exciting of them is « The Beatles », a recreation of a song from the 80s.

 

2LP TRACKLIST:

  1. Peek A Boo
  2. Casper The Friendly Ghost
  3. Some Things Last A Long Time
  4. Walking The Cow
  5. I’m Nervous
  6. Man Obsessed
  7. Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances
  8. Never Before Never Again
  9. The Sun Shines Down On Me
  10. 10 Chord Organ Blues
  11. Living Life
  12. Speeding Motorcycle
  13. True Love Will Find You In The End
  14. Never Relaxed
  15. Sorry Entertainer
  16. Ain’t No Woman Gonna Make A George Jones Outta Me
  17. Lennon Song
  18. Devil Town
  19. Laurie
  20. Story Of An Artist
  21. Funeral Home
  22. Go *
  23. My Yoke Is Heavy *
  24. Wild West Virginia *
  25. I Live My Broken Dreams *
  26. Marching Guitars *
  27. The Great Tune *
* VINYL ONLY BONUS TRACKS

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