Thalia Zedek - Liars and Prayers (Thrill Jockey)
2/5
By: Eduardo Curi
There are really serious songs here. The lyrics are serious. The melodies are serious. The feelings are serious. The album is serious.
Music should not be this relentlessly serious.
With her very deeply toned voice, Thalia Zedek presents us this time around with 11 tunes that, sadly, fail to ever really capture the listener fully. Perhaps it's the fault of seven minute long opener 'Next Exit', with its punched clean tone rhythm guitar, surely an odd choice for an opening track in any pop album nowadays.
Yet it gets a little better afterwards, with 'Lower Allston' and its PJ Harvey vibe coming across rather well, but still not worthy enough to make you want to bang your head in musical ecstasy or nothin'. On the following 'Do You Remember', the most troublesome problem with the album becomes explicit - it's too full of anticlimactic intros that just never start rocking. Liars and Prayers has the same feel all over its 50 minutes, getting sometimes too dramatic to be listened when not in precisely the right mood.
Thalia seems to be a little out of touch, though she probably doesn't mind. She tries to get a message across to a public not really interested in getting messages from no one, thanks very much. Especially if they're in drawling seven minute long opening tracks.
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