![]() ![]() The big exception is what we might tentatively call an all-star jam, “Ballad Of Old What’s His Name”, with Wilco’s Pat Sansone on bass, Sean Lennon channelling George Harrison, amusingly, on lead guitar, and a usefully unrecognisable Ryan Adams on backing vocals. Mostly, the album seems to have been recorded in Wilco’s loft by Swift with the assistance of one of Sufjan Stevens’ myriad multi-instrumental underlings, Casey Foubert. The title track (which I referred to last time as “I Am The Ocean”, from a live gig three years ago) is a pulsating show of Swift’s skill, a surging, beaty, artful piece that’s as catchy as anything he’s yet written. Initially, it’s a bit jarring, but gradually the sound starts to make sense, as a characteristically perverse twist on his early ‘70s Nilsson schtick. The squitting old synth that runs through “The Original Thought” is a recurring texture here, spraying around the olde-time rinky-dink of Swift’s piano playing. Three tracks from “Ground Trouble Jaw” fetch up here: two that I particularly drew attention to last time, “The Original Thought” and “A Song For Milton Feher”, plus the sweet Motown pastiche, “Lady Luck”. “The Atlantic Ocean” finds Swift back in the comforting hands of Secretly Canadian, and very much back on track. ![]()
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