Tom Verlaine (vocals
she comes up with a series of invitingly artificial settings for her pipes
That record was/is hushed
Black Treacle
The Four Tops’ “Reach Out
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus (Vinyl 2xLP) Leonard Cohen Tom Verlaine (vocalsWith Abattoir Blues The Lyre of Orpheus we have something that few could have expected two albums that can both be regarded as self contained masterpieces; two storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly beautiful records that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, pethedine, poetry, panties, god, auden, Johnny Cash,