Flaming Red

Author: Griffin, Patty

Release Date: 23-06-1998

Details: Review While some of the new tunes rock--the brief but fervid title track, for instance, or the sinuous, darkly sexy Wiggley Fingers--many just meander along, awash in the sort of pristine atmospherics that weigh down too much contemporary roots-pop. -- The Los Angeles Times[T]his album ... has made an abrupt about-face from her 1996 acoustic CD Living with Ghosts. Even when Griffin rocks her hardest, however, her crystal voice commands the high ground. -- People Amazon.ca Griffin's follow-up to the acoustic, lyric-based material of Living With Ghosts shifts gears so dramatically that it hardly seems like the work of the same artist. In an electric wonderland of dense percussion tracks (played by Kenny Aronoff) and tricky guitar attacks (handled by producer Jay Joyce), Griffin reveals herself as a muscular rock & roll singer as well as an emotionally vulnerable balladeer. If the Ramones-loud title track seems to be trying too hard to rock and other cuts just sound busy, overwhelming the song with production (the chaotic rant of "Wiggley Fingers", for one), then the anthemic pulse of "Tony" and the modern soul of "Christina" are gorgeous and convincing. They are the work of an imagination set free, if not fully grown. --Roy Kasten

UPC: 731454090728

EAN: 0731454090728

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New