White Stripes ELSON KAREN LP The Ghost Who Walks THIRD MAN Vinyl 2010 Jack NEW
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KAREN ELSON

LP 

The Ghost Who Walks

180 GRAM VINYL

THIRD MAN RECORDS

+ INNER SLEEVE

Though The Ghost Who Walks is Karen Elson's debut album, she  isn't exactly a musical newcomer -- even if it might seem that  way to those who know her as the model who married the White  Stripes' Jack White. With previous projects ranging from the political cabaret of the Citizens' Band to the garage punk tantrums of Mildred  and the Mice, Elson has her share of musical experience, but with  such wide-ranging credits, it was anyone's guess what her own  album would sound like. On The Ghost Who Walks, she runs the  gamut from chilly murder ballads with British roots to Nashville  twang, giving old-timey folk and modern rock the same intensity  and singing of shipwrecks, stolen lovers, and storms with a  beguiling mournfulness. Her voice's dark dreaminess carries the album, especially on more stripped-down tracks like the acoustic  late-summer lament "Lunasa" and the ghostly shanty "Stolen Roses. pocalyptic feel gets added heft from sudden dynamic shifts and  spooky organ and pedal steel that recall his work with the Dead Weather  -- and indeed, White's bandmate Jack Lawrence plays here as  well, underscoring the repertory company vibe of projects White  is associated with. His fondness for  theatricality and Elson's cabaret  roots combine on "100 Years from Now," a lovelorn song that starts  off sounding like it's being played on a wax cylinder, then blooms  into a sweeping waltz complete with theremin, and on the dust bowl  ballad "Mouths to Feed." Yet many of the album's most striking  moments are decidedly modern-sounding: "The Ghost Who Walks"  -- which gets its name from one of the epithets Elson was called in  school because she was so pale -- updates the murder ballad tradition  with electric pianos that rain unearthly beauty onto the song; "A Thief  at My Door" ebbs and flows, dipping into darker rock territory; and   "The Last Laugh"'s gentle country-pop sounds like it could have come  off a long-lost Dolly Parton album from the `70s. While The Ghost Who  Walks occasionally feels a little long and scattered, it's still a   beautifully made album that earns Elson a place among  moody songstresses such as Neko Case, Amanda  Palmer, Hope Sandoval, and Paula Frazer.

Tracks-

The Ghost Who Walks
The Truth Is the Dirt
Pretty Babies
Lunasa
100 Years from Now
Stolen Roses
Cruel Summer
Garden
The Birds They Circle
A Thief at My Door
The Last Laugh
Mouths to Feed

Cat. No. - TMR030

Date – 2010

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