Discography
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Pricing: $10.00
A good song can be deadpan, cutthroat, heartbreaking. A good song can be perverted and romantic and crestfallen in the same breath. On their new album, The Naysayer delivers 12 such songs that will make you laugh out loud, rethink everyday gestures, and hit "play" again. Deathwhisker (saki024), the debut Naysayer record, showed newcomer-to-music Anna Padgett to be an instinctive and talented songwriter. Here, the songwriter/guitarist/singer shows she's not a one-stop visitor: like a good novelist, her powers of observation & ability to cut to the heart of things are growing year to year. Cynthia Nelson's (Retsin, Ruby Falls) un-drummer drumming, mischievous angel singing, and strangely beautiful melodic additions are also in full flower, while Tara Jane O'Neil (Retsin, Rodan) provides the inimitable guitar and bass work and finely-honed engineer skills that tie it all together. Everything about this album feels more assured - the singing, the playing, the production, the bitter sarcasm - more assured, but still like a rare, fleeting thing that's hard to label. It reveals its strong Texas roots and the spirit of the title's ZZ Top reference: it's got backroads and beer drinking (whether mentioned or not, the beer's there) as well as a healthy dose of sex, but the Naysayer is not down-home, porch-sitting country. More Flannery O'Connor than Mark Twain, The Naysayer has a darker agenda and vision, with elements of a southern gothic novel infused w/classic pop music. |
