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Recorded in New Orleans a few months after Katrina devastated it, generators at the ready to supply electricity when the power failed, Powder Burns is former Afghan Whigs frontdude Greg Dulli's finest work in a decade. It's widely and wisely been hailed as the most solid Twilight Singers release to date, as it combines the sultry and hazy lounge air of the first three Singers records with the scorched earth intensity of the Whigs. Fancy guests abound--Ani DiFranco, Joseph Arthur, former A.W. bassist John Curley--but the focus rarely strays from Dulli's sex-soaked, melodramatic croon. "I Wish I Was" sounds like a great lost Chocolate Genius song until the bombastic chorus kicks in. There are dozens of elements here--super multi-tracked choruses, Beatles-referring hooks, ridonculously classic rock guitar solos, vaguely dance-y drum programming, rousing piano lines, etc.--that would sound poseur-y or played out most anywhere else. But on Powder Burns, they just sound like damn good music.
CONDITION: NEW
TRACK LISTING
1 Toward The Waves
0:49
2
I'm Ready
3:05
3
There's Been An Accident
5:17
4
Bonnie Brae
4:46
5
Forty Dollars
3:52
6
Candy Cane Crawl
4:27
7
Underneath The Waves
4:28
8
My Time (Has Come)
4:22
9
Dead To Rights
4:25
10
The Conversation
3:04
11
Powder Burns
5:52
12 I Wish I Was
4:20
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