Catherine Wheel
Adam And Eve
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Catherine Wheel
Adam And Eve
Polygram, 1997
RiYL: Swervedriver, Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr. |
Catherine Wheel spent a few albums combing the landfill of psychedelic rock in search of bits with which to mold and shape its own music. And it has worked. 1995's Happy Days married the Floydian aura to an aggressive rock approach that yielded hits such as "Way Down" and "Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck."
On the heels of a B-sides album featuring a cover of Floyd's "Wish You Were Here," the Wheel returns here with a new opus, Adam And Eve. We've heard emotive, shimmery ballads such as "Future Boy" before. But on pristine rockers such as the relentless "Delicious'' or the potently cathartic "Broken Nose," we hear Catherine Wheel spinning into a melodious dirge.
Rob Dickinson's desperate voice still emanates from the dark places scattered throughout the human psyche. "Save some of your hope for me," he pleads on "Delicious.'' "Broken Nose" mourns passage of time with lines such as "you with your public displays of pain/you've been painful for too long."
Catherine Wheel shines in a realm of hard-hitting rock paralleled only by fellow Brits Swervedriver. Adam And Eve spins rock on its big, fat, Pink Floyd ear.
JONATHAN COHEN | Jonathan Cohen co-created Nude As The News with his Indiana University mates Troy Carpenter and Ben French. When not traversing the globe for business and pleasure, he holds down the fort as a senior editor for Billboard in New York. Stop him and he just may ask, "what for lunch?"