Date posted: 5 months ago
Title:
6 I Told You I Couldn't Stop
Description:
Label : Columbia Records :: Store date : 2008-06-10 :: Want proof of the old adage, “Like father like son?” Look no further than Jakob Dylan's new solo set Seeing Things. There, we find The Wallflowers' frontman stripped down to a low, husky minimum for a collection of 10 sparse tracks we'd sooner have expected from dear old Dad. Produced by Rick Rubin (Weezer, Linkin Park) and recorded at Rubin's house in the Hollywood Hills, Seeing Things is Dylan's first foray into the more earnest waters of an acoustic singer-songwriter, and it's not a place he intends to drown. Instead, he seems content to float lazily, lyrically painting quiet, rural pictures and forging sweet, olden melodies with yarns about war, yearning and survival.
In that, the album comes across a lot like a trip through a time machine, full of bluesy, old-fashioned soul and rustic storytelling. It's certainly nostalgic, too, reminiscent of a crackly transistor radio broadcast, even though there's nothing here that's as Top 40 radio-ready as Dylan and the Wallflower's previous catalogue or Grammy-winning "One Headlight." Oh well. Standout tracks like the heartfelt “Will It Grow” and “This End of the Telescope” are just as palatable, if in a different way. So you've got to give him a bit of credit. After a decade and a half spent working too, seemingly, distance himself from his iconic last name, Jakob Dylan is finally stepping front and center. Seeing Things may conjure thoughts of Bob, but Jakob made this truly intimate, unguarded record all on his own.
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