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Ask For Forgiveness (CD)

By: Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Ask For Forgiveness (CD) Album By Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Artist)
1   I Came To Hear The Music  
2   I've Seen It All  
3   Am I Demon?  
4   My Life  
5   I'm Loving The Street  
6   Way I Am, The  
7   Cycles  
8   World's Greatest, The  
 

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Review

The Wire (p.53) - "Within its contemplative parameters, ASK FORGIVENESS is certainly a success....[With] Bonnie 'Prince' Billy returning once again to a meditative, troubadour persona..."
Q (Magazine) (p.92) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "With Oldham reinventing everything in his own backwoods way, the results are not so far in spirit from Johnny Cash's American Recordings."
Harp (magazine) - "[T]here's remarkable fluidity across this gorgeous set, which suggests that Oldham's versions of anyone else's songs are first and foremost his own."

Title Note

After a devastating string of full-lengths in the early 2000s culminating in the one-two punch of 2005's collaboration with Matt Sweeney, SUPERWOLF, and 2006's wrenching THE LETTING GO, Will Oldham seemed to be in a state of letting go himself. He re-energized his acting career with OLD JOY and a goofy appearance in a Kanye West video; wrote "His Hands," the title track to soul singer Candi Staton's comeback record; and backed up Tortoise on an odd album that featured-- among other throwaways--a cover of Springsteen's "Thunder Road." ASK FORGIVENESS, a mini-album of his own covers, finds Oldham back in fine form even as it chips away at his hard-earned gravitas.

Recorded on a lark in Philadelphia with members of the homegrown folkie outfit Espers, ASK FORGIVENESS finds Oldham lending his trademark warble to a diverse array of numbers. While Phil Ochs, Bjork, Thom Yorke, and Danzig are all given the Palace brother's spacious and shambolic indie-folk makeover here, the collection's stand-out is R. Kelly's "World's Greatest," within which Oldham discovers an earnest heart. While Cat Power--the other titan of millennial whisper-rock--beat Oldham to this concept with her own THE COVERS RECORD, ASK FORGIVENESS is every bit that record's equal and a welcome addition to Oldham's epic catalog.

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