March 5, 2010
Album Review: Baby Dee - 'A Book Of Songs' (Tin Angel)
Antony Hegarty's close friend and collaborator goes it alone
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7 / 10
Baby Dee is no stranger to bruising emotional theatre. However, in contrast to her Will Oldham-arranged last album, which swung like a Weimar republic hoedown, ‘A Book Of Songs’ is a thing of simple beauty. In turn, she accompanies her trilling vocal delivery on piano, accordion and harp in sparse arrangements by Antony Hegarty sideman Maxim Moston, with the overall effect being like stumbling into a cobwebbed velvet-lined anteroom somewhere in Tim Burton’s head. From the delicate piano ballad ‘Lilacs’ to the overwrought expressionism of ‘As Morning Holds A Star’, her vocals resound with a combination of determined affectation and emotional integrity.
Anthony Thornton
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