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Dave Graney and Clare MooreHashish And Liquor Cockaigne/Reverberation ...and so to the continuing adventures of Dave Graney, Australia's self-styled King Of Pop, and his paramour Clare Moore. It's a weird and wonderful world in which Dave and Clare live; about the only thing that's straight on this latest release is that Dave's dropped the monikers (no White Buffaloes, Coral Snakes, Dave Graney Show, Royal Dave Graney Show, or Lurid Yellow Mist, just Dave Graney). Oh, and it's a double CD. For Dave's disc ('Hashish'), it's business as usual: laidback lounge lizard crooning with a twist of pop, flights of lyrical fancy, and of course fantastic song titles (My Schtick Weighs A Ton, I Will Have Always Been Here Before). If you're unacquainted with Dave, you'll no doubt be puzzled; if you know and like the man, you'll nod along knowingly. Perhaps the one small detour Graney makes is towards some jaunty late night jazz; jazz pianist Mark Fitzgibbon contributes to four tracks and two, There He Goes With His Eye Out and I've Got Dimensions, are among the best songs of Graney's career. Dave might be a strange cat, but his partner, Clare Moore, has produced an album ('Liquor') that is even more eccentric, and easily the more challenging of the two. Where 'Hashish' is organic, 'Liquor' is all atmospherics and machines and rhythms and simple, evocative keyboard lines. Initially impenetrable, 'Liquor' eventually reveals itself as a wilfully subversive little record featuring evil nuns, town bikes, night trains to hell, the void, and the abyss - and also some great song titles (A Lot To Drink About, for example). Who put these two together? They just encourage each other - and thank goodness for that.  |
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