Review:
'KAPLAN, RANDY WITH BRIAN SCHEY'
'DURANGO'
- Label: 'Yellow Things Records'
- Genre: 'Pop'
- Release Date: '2009'- Catalogue No: 'YT 70022'
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Randy Kaplan influences range from Charles Bukowski to Cole Porter. He is accompanied here by composer, arranger and producer Brian Schey.
Together their compositions are mainly sleepy romantic ballads which occasionally sound uncannilly like outtakes from Lucinda Williams' 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road', particularly on 'What's That Noise?'
The very laid back mood is disrupted by a couple of irritating novelty songs - the Calexico meets Ricky Martin Tex-Mex swing of Tucumari ("the oldest hooker in America is here/ If you step to it she might do it for a beer") and a smug cabaret number called 'True At The Time'.
Aside from these diversions a jazzy lounge mood pervails with soporific piano lulling the listener into a stupor.
If you skip tracks 3 and 4 this is the perfect record for insomniacs.
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author: Martin Raybould
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