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Dark Matter

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発売日 2017年09月01日
国内/輸入 輸入(ヨーロッパ盤)
レーベルNonesuch
構成数 1
パッケージ仕様 -
規格品番 7559794034
SKU 075597940343

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:00:00
Early in his career, Randy Newman used to regularly puzzle over his lack of commercial success, seemingly unaware that his trademark combination of New Orleans piano and wildly unreliable narrators was hardly a sure path to the Hit Parade. Decades later, Newman has found a side door to fame and wealth as a composer of film scores and likeable theme tunes for Pixar features. As a consequence, the man who created dark masterpieces like 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys is too busy to make the same sort of albums he released when he was a mere cult figure. 2017's Dark Matter comes nine years after 2008's Harps and Angels (which in turn arrived nine years after 1999's Bad Love), but for fans of Newman's work, the consolation prize for his non-prolific nature is that his albums have been free of filler, and Dark Matter ranks with his best work of the '70s and '80s. If anything, Newman has become a more ambitious songwriter than he was in his younger days; there's a scope to his storytelling that's bigger but just as satisfying as his '70s milestones, and years of writing and arranging for an orchestra have taught him how to use the tonal colors of a large ensemble to his advantage without drowning out the nuances. And Newman's endless cynicism and fascination with offbeat characters is served brilliantly on Dark Matter, as science squares off against faith, Sonny Boy Williamson encounters Rice Miller, the Kennedys plot the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Vladimir Putin ponders his land and his power, and a well-meaning beach bum survives the passing parade of history. Even the album's weakest cut, "It's a Jungle Out There," works in context, and the two numbers about the bonds of family, "Lost Without You" and "Wandering Boy," are thoughtful and genuinely moving. And the easy, endlessly reliable stride of Newman's piano remains one of popular music's most underrated pleasures. At his current pace, Randy Newman will be 83 by the time he gets around to releasing the follow-up to Dark Matter, but judging from this, if there's anyone capable of that sort of late-career milestone, it's him. ~ Mark Deming

【SIDE 1】
01. The Great Debate
02. Brothers
03. Putin
04. Lost Without You

【SIDE 2】
05. Sonny Boy
06. It's a Jungle out There (V2)
07. She Chose Me
08. On the Beach
09. Wandering Boy

  1. 1.[LPレコード]
    1. 1.
      The Great Debate
    2. 2.
      Brothers
    3. 3.
      Putin
    4. 4.
      Lost Without You
    5. 5.
      Sonny Boy
    6. 6.
      It's a Jugle Out There
    7. 7.
      She Chose Me
    8. 8.
      On the Beach
    9. 9.
      Wandering Boy

作品の情報

メイン
アーティスト： Randy Newman

商品の紹介

今を生きる、そして10年後にこれを聴く人たちへ――あなたが見ているアメリカはどんなですか? 現代アメリカ音楽界における最高のソングライターにして最も偉大なストーリー・テラー=ランディ・ニューマンが、現代に聴かせ問う、皮肉とペーソス、ユーモアが入り乱れた21世紀の歌物語――プーチンからケネディ兄弟、サニー・ボーイ・ウィリアムソンまでもが登場する『DARK MATTER』完成!
発売・販売元 提供資料（2017/07/07）

Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Small-scale dramas hit home harder, like 'On the Beach,' a wistful Western-swing tune about a depressing aged surfer burnout, and the devastatingly beautiful solo-piano lament 'Wandering Boy'..." Spin - "Newman is his own director, and he's as maximal as he wants to be in conveying the humor and the stakes. The result is perhaps the most narratively complex album of his fifty-year career as a solo artist." Magnet - "[W]e get several reliably tender ballads from a true virtuoso sentimentalist, especially the deeply touching 'Lost Without You'..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[B]rimming with his sweet-sour magic....There's a familiar sense that such small tales might somehow hold the key to much bigger subjects..." Paste (magazine) - "[S]ome of the most fun and intoxicating material of his career....The theatrical arc of the long-winded concept piece 'The Great Debate' opens the album..." Pitchfork (Website) - "He has lost little of his bite and none of his humor....He seems less interested in polemics than before, less interested in leveraging sentiment with disgust, giving over -- ever so slightly -- to a softer intention."
Rovi

Early in his career, Randy Newman used to regularly puzzle over his lack of commercial success, seemingly unaware that his trademark combination of New Orleans piano and wildly unreliable narrators was hardly a sure path to the Hit Parade. Decades later, Newman has found a side door to fame and wealth as a composer of film scores and likeable theme tunes for Pixar features. As a consequence, the man who created dark masterpieces like 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys is too busy to make the same sort of albums he released when he was a mere cult figure. 2017's Dark Matter comes nine years after 2008's Harps and Angels (which in turn arrived nine years after 1999's Bad Love), but for fans of Newman's work, the consolation prize for his non-prolific nature is that his albums have been free of filler, and Dark Matter ranks with his best work of the '70s and '80s. If anything, Newman has become a more ambitious songwriter than he was in his younger days; there's a scope to his storytelling that's bigger but just as satisfying as his '70s milestones, and years of writing and arranging for an orchestra have taught him how to use the tonal colors of a large ensemble to his advantage without drowning out the nuances. And Newman's endless cynicism and fascination with offbeat characters is served brilliantly on Dark Matter, as science squares off against faith, Sonny Boy Williamson encounters Rice Miller, the Kennedys plot the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Vladimir Putin ponders his land and his power, and a well-meaning beach bum survives the passing parade of history. Even the album's weakest cut, "It's a Jungle Out There," works in context, and the two numbers about the bonds of family, "Lost Without You" and "Wandering Boy," are thoughtful and genuinely moving. And the easy, endlessly reliable stride of Newman's piano remains one of popular music's most underrated pleasures. At his current pace, Randy Newman will be 83 by the time he gets around to releasing the follow-up to Dark Matter, but judging from this, if there's anyone capable of that sort of late-career milestone, it's him. ~ Mark Deming
Rovi

素晴らしきかな、ランディ・ニューマン劇場。9年ぶりの新作は甘美な響きと不穏な空気が交錯するアメリカーナの一大絵巻となった。ミュージカル調"The Great Debate"など全編でストリングスを潤沢に配し、カリブ音楽のテイストも採り入れながらアイロニーとユーモアに満ちた物語を展開していく。泣けてしょうがないノスタルジックなバラードが多いのも最高だ。ライ・クーダーの嫉妬する顔が目に浮かぶ。
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