However, the promise of his self-titled debut faded after his admirable but flawed second album Humming failed to go much of anywhere. Sheik disappeared from the musical landscape that had now turned towards the angry male for examples.
Now, with the elegant and quietly adventurous Phantom Moon , Sheik focuses on what he can do well, and seems content to make music for no one but himself.
Unlike his two previous albums, Sheik has handed lyrical duties to playwright Steven Sater, and has chosen to expand on his abilities as a musician. Cards 3. You Are What You Wear 4. Oh Sri Lanka 5. True Faith 6. Killing Time 7. In The Air Tonight 8. If We Get Married Not A Common Man Mistletoe Alert Clean Killing Spree Nice Thought I Am Back A Girl Before This Is Not An Exit Selling Out Fischer King Remix Killing Time 2.
Listen to American Psycho. Genius 2. Half-Life 3. Start Again 4. On Her Mind 5. Such Reveries 6. On a High 7. Magazines 8.
For You 9. Good Morning! Memento Shine Inside. Listen to Daylight. Mama Who Bore Me 2. Mama Who Bore Me Reprise 3. My Junk 6. Touch Me 7. The World Of Your Body 8. The Dark I Know Well 9.
And Then There Were None The Mirror-Blue Night I Believe The Guilty Ones Left Behind Whispering The Song of Purple Summer. Stripped 2. Hold Me Now 3. Love Vigilantes 4. Kyoto Song 5. What is Love 6. So Alive 7. Shout 8. Gentlemen Take Polaroids 9. William It Was Really Nothing Stay Ghost in You. West of Words 2. Down the Hole 3. Still 4. Chillin' the Regrets 5. The Key Is 6. Those Long Eyes 7. Manage Your Flamingo 8.
Sick to Death of Alice-ness 9. Brillig Braelig Some Things Fall Away Your Shell of Grief Another Room in Your Head I've Shrunk Enough Afternoon It's over, but the major concerns of this "song cycle" have been set in motion. Simply put, all of the songs on Phantom Moon gaze deeply into the heart, that jeweled organ that is considered by all faiths to be the true center of the human being, the true mind.
In various settings, either a guitar, a dobro, a piano, minimal drums and bass, or the London Session Orchestra frame these songs with a stark framework to allow their fragile melodies -- highlighted by Sheik 's gorgeous baritone -- and poetic lyrics to come to the fore. One song ends as the next begins, nearly overlapping, carrying the listener ever deeper into a space of reflection and appreciation for this aesthetic whisper of an album.
If ever Sheik were compared to Nick Drake , Phantom Moon would be the appropriate location for such a comparison, with the haunted string section framing "Sad Stephen's Song," with its skeletal dobro and dulcimer.
Or perhaps the relatively up-tempo folk song structure of "Time and Good Fortune," which is lushly -- if understatedly so -- orchestrated by the not only the LSO but by Sheik 's use of glockenspiel, harmonium, banjo, double bass, and drums. The listener wonders where the film is to accompany such striking yet subtle imagery. And with the appearance of labelmate Bill Frisell on the beautiful melancholy that is "Far Away," the album just goes over the top emotionally.
And the amazing thing is, it just goes on, reaching ever higher while sitting perfectly and meditatively still, allowing images, feelings, and notions of "what to do" to enter, make themselves known, and leave. There are no weak moments on Phantom Moon.
Sheik has proven himself a mature songwriter who has it within his power to write virtually anything he wants; he is also a deft arranger who knows exactly what his songs require -- he resists all temptations to excess. With a new label allowing Sheik to give his many ideas voice, at this point there is no telling how far he will go. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.
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