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Ladies Love Oracle by Grant-Lee Phillips
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fave it California Pop | Delicate
10 tracks | 36 minutes
Released Feb 2000
on Magnetic Field Recordings
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Grant-Lee Phillips in the raw, in the dark, in the basement. Sometimes a sketch says more than a mural.
Editorial review
Ladies' Love Oracle is an intimate, candle-lit coming-out party for Grant Lee Phillips, who continues to prove himself as one of the finest songwriters of the last 20 years. Recorded over a three-day span during October 1999 in Jon Brion's basement studio, the brief, nine-song collection is a one-man show in the raw. As stated by the man himself, "Sometimes a sketch says more than a mural." Indeed -- there's an even <I>greater</I> sense of immediacy and warmth here than in the work of his prior band. Though the chiefly acoustic guitar-based record is skeletal in nature when compared to Grant Lee Buffalo's studio work, some of these pearls are lushly draped with harmonica, piano, and other refinements without ever sounding extraneous. Here, Phillips joins the gilded ranks of Bob Mould, Mark Eitzel, and Kristin Hersh -- songwriters who have flourished alone in the wakes of their respective bands. If Grant Lee Buffalo's best work is like admiring a vast flower garden from afar, Phillips' first solo release is akin to picking a rose from that garden, putting your nose to it and admiring the folds of the petals. Lovely. [The 2002 re-release contains one bonus track.] ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
This album was recorded over the course of three days in October '99.
"Ladies' Love Oracle is me in the raw, me in the dark, me in the basement.
Sometimes a sketch says more than a mural." - Grant-Lee Phillips
Ladies' Love Oracle may be said to be comparable to other works by Grant Lee Buffalo (particularly the more acoustic outings) and comparable, in the sparseness and spontaneity of its production, to certain early John Lennon solo recordings as well as Robyn Hitchcock's acoustic based LP, "I Often Dream Of Trains."