Powder Burns

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Entertainment Weekly - "[H]e once again lets it rip. Adorned with swirling strings and sensuous background vocals..." -- Grade: B+ Alternative Press - "The crashing waves of guitar, strings and backing vocals on 'There's Been An Accident' are simply majestic, and the U2-style lament "I Wish I Was' conveys just what it means to miss New Orleans." Q - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[There is] a lightness of touch to these songs that Dulli has only rarely suggested he possesses. 'There's Been An Accident' unfolds with grace and the ghostly 'Candy Cane Crawl' is all the better for being so understated." Magnet - "POWDER BURNS is as much about great songs as vibe. The mood is Southern Gothic, but the music is hooky, powerful and raw." Mojo - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Throughout, Dulli's unswerving ear for a pop hook is apparent....The autobiographical lyrics on offer here make for intimate listening." Q - Ranked #50 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006" -- "[The album] saw Dulli at the top of his uniquely melodramatic game." Kerrang - "Every song incorporates different stylistic elements, combining to realise a magnificent whole that embeds itself irrevocably in head and heart." Q - 4 (out of 5) - "Dulli has come out the other side, bloodied but unbowed. That, much like powder burns, is a triumph in itself." NME - 7 (out of 10) - "Greg Dulli has emerged battered, but on top." The Independent Information Magazine - 4 (out of 5) - "Noir rock at it's most potent." Mail On Sunday - 4 (out of 5) - "Seething, lascivious, abrasive and vengeful." ABC Magazine, The Independent On Sunday - 4 (out of 5) - "As tasty as ever." The Sun - 5 (out of 5) - "A brooding success." The Independent - 4 (out of 5) - "Confessional yet mysterious, deeply personal yet strangely abstract." Kerrang - "As near to perfect as it gets." Mojo - 3 (out of 5) - "Dulli's unswerving ear for a pop hook is apparent...which is just as well: the autobiographical lyrics on offer here make for intimate listening." Uncut - 4 (out of 5) - "The mood is dark...Kinda seductive too."

'Powder Burns' is the third proper studio album from Greg Dulli under his Twilight Singers guise. Recorded in various locations including Milan and New Orleans and produced by Mike Napolitano and Dulli himself, the album sees Dulli and Co. continue with the soul-infused indie rock sound that graced their previous release, 2003's 'Blackberry Belle'. The album also includes guest spots from Ani Difranco, Joseph Arthur and former Afghan Whigs bassist John Curley.|

Addiction, as Greg Dulli knows, is an all-consuming occupation. Finding your next fix is what drives every move, every breathe, every word. It is your devil and it is your god, your sickness and your well-being. It is, in short, your entire life. And so the fact that Dulli sobered up in the time between the Twilight Singers' previous album, She Loves You, and Powder Burns doesn't make it surprising that this latest release is about that disease. But Dulli's too smart -- and was too intimately involved with drugs -- to make a nice, clean record with easy, straightforward statements that float like bubbles into his audience's outstretched, pudgy fingers. Instead, he spits and growls and coughs questions into our thin, gaping faces, questions that he knows have no answers, and that even if they did, he wouldn't want to hear them anyway. Because Powder Burns is too personal. It's a debate within Dulli himself, an argument that twists and wrenches itself through 11 different conversations and ends up with nothing more than a sigh and a wistful prayer for salvation. Musically, the album is as hard as the group has ever gotten. From the intense, driving opener that crashes into "I'm Ready" like a wall of water, to the hedonistic snarl in "My Time (Has Come)," Dulli is pure carnal emotion. Even in the slower songs, with the slinking drums of "Candy Cane Crawl," or the greasy, nasally promises he offers in "Forty Dollars," it's nothing but his own blood that's pushing the music along, pulsing with the beat itself. Though he's singing from different perspectives, trying to take on other personas, it's obvious that everything he's saying is about him, his own problems, his own story. The songs reference each other, reference other songs and literary works, bite into one another like a pack of hungry dogs and leave blood and patches of hair wherever they've been, but continue to limp down that smudged path that separates pleasure from pain. And Dulli's a genius at straddling that line, sliding into that muddy spot between sobriety and being high ("daylight is creeping, I feel it burn my face," he moans), that dangerous place between the flame and the coals, where he crouches, the hair on the back of his hands singed, hoping that maybe somehow he'll be able to get out successfully. If Powder Burns is any indication of his strength and cunning, he's already found an escape. ~ Marisa Brown