“Aural Bliss”
Reviews continue to stream in. Embo Blake says I sometimes sing off-key but also says that’s a good thing so it’s okay and he’s probably right. But, more importantly, Hybrid Magazine just loved the record. The whole thing is great but here’s a good bit:
Not only are the songs on Pain Is A Reliable Signal well written and emotionally charged (albeit in a rather down-played fashion), but they are very well produced.Robert L. Smith and Paul Brill (a master of gloomy Americana of his own sort) have taken the songs of The Flying Change and created a musical palette that is very evocative and cinematic. The songs carry the mind from a stark desert landscape to the bustle of an urban center, and back to the peace of the country. Jacobs has done a wonderful job of writing songs that are highly personal, but also tell stories in a way that Paul Simon would be proud of, and putting them all together in a wildly delicious package of aural bliss.
Good stuff. Thanks, Embo. And thanks Robert L Smith and Paul Brill. You guys are good and decent gentlemen.
