2006, The Worker’s Institute
Peter And The Wolf seem to occupy a strange middle ground in the freak folk realm- balanced somewhere between free love and love freely taken, mystique and menace, innocence and violence.
Some of Lightness brings to mind mountains, rivers, naked women dancing, and hazy ’60s movies. That’s the good stuff. Some of it also evokes memories of total bummers like bad LSD trips, murderous Hell’s Angels, and Charlie Manson. That’s the scary stuff.
Lightness is a straightforward-yet-odd acoustic affair, for sure, but it shouldn’t be dismissed with all of the other crap produced in the name of freak-folk. Like most of the records that have sprung from the acid-laced wellspring of the ’60s, Lightness owes a lot to others’ past successes. However, this record manages to create a welcome sense familiarity, not of theft.
B+
thats an awful review. have you even listened to the actual record?
What about the review is awful, nico?