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| Exiles From Eden review by Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald 5/4/08 Glenn Cardier has been around on the edges of the mainstream Australian music scene since the early 1970's. when he worked mainly in the folk circuit. Over the years he has gravitated towards the blues and found his own very distinctive mode of gruff delivery. With Exiles From Eden he has delivered his best album ever. Good lyrics, interesting and original music, simple but effective arrangements. It is characterised by some of the finest songwriting this country has produced. Life Of The Party is a haunting, menacing tour de force. Angelica is one of the most interesting R&B compositions you'll hear anywhere - very unusual and very clever. Watch Out (Love Gonna Getcha) is so delightfully swampy it could be covered by Tony Joe White and Invisible Ink is a magical ballad that lyrically draws a clever parallel between kids' games and adult secrets. This is a very good album from a musician who has followed his own original muse without compromise. Exiles From Eden: 4 Stars!!! Review by Anthony O'Grady in the Weekend Australian 12/1/2008 Glenn Cardier was a leading light of Australia's early 1970s folk scene. He made two acoustic albums, did the wine bar-uni circuit and played Sunbury twice. He used to be very confessional, sometimes uncomfortably so. What kept me listening was his mellifluous timbre and his wry, observant rhymes. He was a long-term opening act for comedian Spike Milligan and his music had more than a tinge of Milligan's brilliant mania. These days, Cardier can get gruff with the blues but hasn't lost his silken acoustic touch. His music is rootsy blues and folk, now beefed up by power chords. His delivery is chanson, that European style of declamation where emotion is enunciated with savoir faire. On Exiles From Eden he's both vulnerable and tensile - open to life, with a wary eye for storm clouds on the horizon. Flash Guitar is an unsentimental story of a long-time love affair with music, Watch Out is growling swamp blues, Uncharted Waters is a gentle love song, and She's The One Fore Me has the album's most playful and delightful rhyme: "ghetto, falsetto, Rigoletto". Review by Keith Glass in Capital News, March 2008) Local lad GLENN CARDIER is first up with the second release since his re-emergence (he put out some highly sought-after albums in the mid 1970's.) Once again he plays all the instruments (if I'm reading the notes correctly) and does an extraordinary job on every one to get the exact sound he is after. Roots music variety is the result. Every song has a distinctive arrangement with the distinctive tough but tender vocal of Cardier fleshing out lyrics that definitely have something to say. From the lost love reminiscence of opener and title track Exiles From Eden to the surprise happy ending of Flash Guitar there is plenty here to sustain interest. Glenn should be trumpeted as one of our finest, an original and a craftsman of the highest order. I don't see any such awards flowing his way but maybe the work is compensation enough. That is the way it should be for this quiet achiever - only make a big noise on disc. Don't worry Glenn, they will come. ''You know something special is about to happen when the front row of the audience is overflowing with the headline musicians at the festival.....' (Andrew Pattison, music producer) 'Glenn Cardier has been writing and performing moving, insightful, powerful and important songs for more than thirty years. His intriguing evolution has given us something like a cross between John Prine and John Lee Hooker. With captivating presence, a commanding vocal style and a gloriously perverse point of view that produces songs which take firm hold and lingerlong, he comes dangerously close to being certified as a national treasure.' (GLENN A BAKER, author/rock historian) '...his forte is slightly, delightfully off-centre songs that owe more to Tom Waits or Captain Beefheart than traditional folk sources...fine work all around... (Keith Glass 'Rhythms') ...I am amazed at Cardier's guitar playing - never a standout on previous recordings - but it's his voice that sounds so much better. It's aged like a good wine: gruff and gravelly yet emotional...this new album deserves wide exposure.... (Chris Spencer) ... his trademark combination of incisive observation and skewed wit is still intact here, wrapped in a blues infused rock that shows off his seasoned voice. The years have made his voice gruffer and occasionally craggier but he hasn't lost his knack of juggling a genuinely sensitive moment with one that raises a wry smile... (Bill Holdsworth, RAVE Magazine) |
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| News! Scroll down for the complete reviews of 'Exiles From Eden' 'He has delivered his best album ever...characterised by some of the finest songwriting this country has produced...' (Bruce Elder, SMH) '...FOUR STARS!...' (Anthony O'Grady, Weekend Australian) |
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