GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Kyle Craft
Full Circle Nightmare
(Sub Pop)
★★★★
STUMBLING around somewhere between Highway 61 Revisited and Sticky Fingers, the second album from Portland-based US singer-songwriter Kyle Craft is a raw, swaggering burst of old-school rock’n'roll.
The catchy songs come thick and fast and the lyrics are often surreal and intense, like Craft's hero Bob Dylan. With its piano and organ, the barnstorming Exile Rag bowls along much like Dylan’s Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, while Heartbreak Junky employs glorious Creedence Clearwater Revival-style guitar.
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