The name of today's CD reminds me of my senior Honors colloquium, The Theme of the Alien Woman in Literature. By reading Medea, the biblical Book of Ruth, Bronte's Jane Eyre, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and my all-time favorite classic, Hardy's Tess of the D'Uberville's, we determined that a woman taken from her native land and thrust into a new environment had but two choices: to adapt or to die. Happy, cheery discussions ensued.
This had absolutely nothing to do with the day's CD, unless we consider Ben Watt's mysterious and life-threatening illness chronicled quite well in his book, Patient.
So, we have Everything But The Girl's Adapt Or Die: Ten Years of Remixes to talk about.
I have loved Tracey Thorn for such a long time. (Going back to the days of hours and hours spent in Chamberlain's Restaurant, for you Faithful Readers going back THAT far...)Not as much as this poetic reviewer, but still. I loved the obvious depth of feeling the writer has, and curbed the urge to plagiarize him, so check it out for yourself...
While this disc is a welcome addition to my vault, as anything graced by the dulcet tones of Ms. Thorn are to my ears, as collections go I would recommend the exquisite Like The Deserts Miss The Rain over this one. This is definitely for a limited audience, and to me, more of a curiosity than a listenable CD.
(ps - on their website, under LATEST is a great little article Tracey wrote regarding the unfortunate legalities of the recording business. The bottom line being that HUMMER is using their recording of Love Is Strange without their permission. As they are not the songwriters, they have no control of how the song is used, or what it is used to promote, even if it is a product that they do not endorse....good reading, folks)
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