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I See A Darkness (CD)

By: Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Artist)

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy Artist Snapshot:

One of several monikers employed by country maverick Will Oldham, Bonnie "Prince" Billy became the artist's favored voice during the late 1990s and into the 2000s. The debut full-length I SEE A DARKNESS was hailed as one of Oldham's finest releases, augmenting the Appalachian gothic of his earlier work with additional instrumentation. In the always enigmatic artist threw fans a delightful curveball with 2004's SINGS GREATEST PALACE MUSIC, on which the singer-songwriter revisited his own back catalogue with a group of Nashville session musicians. As the 2000s rolled on, the Bonnie sobriquet would come to represent Oldham at perhaps his most prolific and challenging; he would collaborate with post-rock act Tortoise, cover a broad range of artists from Danzig to Bjork, and release several stunning original full-lengths.

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DISC 1 for I See A Darkness (CD) Album By Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Artist)
1   Minor Place, A
2   Nomadic Revery (All Around)
3   I See A Darkness
4   Another Day Full Of Dread
5   Death To Everyone
6   Knockturne
7   Madeleine-Mary
8   Song For The New Breed
9   Today I Was An Evil One
10   Black
11   Raining In Darling
 

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Review

Uncut (5/04, p.89) - "[A]s blackly comic as it was epiphanic..."
Dirty Linen (2-3/00, p.93) - "...Here is Will Oldham again with more name changes and more cryptic packaging. There is a dark quality to the songs....quasiminimalist..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.65) - Ranked #20 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[With] stronger vocals and sparsely arranged, utterly beautiful melodies."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/99, p.99) - "...harrowing gothic-folk at its darkest. A quiet gem for those chill, midwinter evenings."

Title Note

Personnel: Will Oldham, Bob Arellano, Colin Gagon, Paul Oldham, Peter Townshend.

After abandoning the Palace moniker for a straight-up solo career, Will Oldham seemed to lose his focus a bit, but rechristened as Bonnie Prince Billy, he's regained it in spades. Where his previous solo efforts sounded thrown-together and lacked real songcraft, I SEE A DARKNESS is probably Oldham's most consistent, rewarding batch of songs since the Palace Brothers '93 debut. For once, the ever-elusive Oldham sounds like he's making a genuine effort to communicate--the relatively straightforward (but still poetic) lyrics, nicely arranged (but still lo-fi) sonic backdrops, and song structures with hummable (!) choruses are all unprecedented and highly agreeable developments. The titular darkness pervades much of the album, but there's an underlying warmth that shines through, making this an emotionally well-balanced effort.

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