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Track Listing
1. Letters From the Wasteland
2. Hand Me Down
3. Sleepwalker
4. I've Been Delivered
5. Witness
6. Some Flowers Bloom Dead
7. Mourning Train
8. Up From Under
9. Murder 101
10. Birdcage
Album Notes
The Wallflowers: Jakob Dylan (vocals, guitar); Michael Ward (guitar, background vocals); Rami Jaffee (keyboards, vibraphone, background vocals); Greg Richling (bass, percussion, background vocals); Mario Calire (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Elvis Costello, Jon Brion, Frank Black, Mitchell Froom, Lenny Castro, Greg Leisz, Gary Louris, Mike Campbell.
Recorded at Sunset Sound and Sound Factory, Hollywood, California; Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California; Sound Inn, Tokyo, Japan.
After the multi-platinum and Grammy-winning success of 1996's BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE, Jakob Dylan finally got out from under the heavy mantle of his famous father's legacy and started a legacy of his own. For his millennial follow-up, the younger Dylan continued down the path of rich lyricism and well-crafted pop songs with help from the production team of Andrew Slater (Fiona Apple/Macy Gray) and singer-songwriter Michael Penn.
Despite all his success and acclaim, Dylan comes off as more the hard-edged realist than bright-eyed optimist. Song topics draw from the sour experiences of life and a quest for higher meaning, manifested in numbers like the enigmatic and weary seeker-of-truth ode "I've Been Delivered," and the message of regret that is "Some Flowers Bloom Dead." Famous friends also pop up along the way to lend a hand, among the most notable being Elvis Costello, who helps out on the rollicking break-up song "Murder 101" and Frank Black, whose harmonies help shape "Letters From the Wasteland," a moody, desolate song of abandonment. Adding a nice counter-balancing coda to the slight disillusionment coloring BREACH is "Babybird," a sweet-sounding hidden track that reverberates with a music-box melody throughout.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...Dylan has grown as a singer....The songs are incandescent enough to jump out at you on the radio, yet are steeped in a type of introspective inquiry that was once integral to rock & roll...
Rolling Stone (10/26/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Generic, but very nicely done....its 10 songs possess the requisite authorative air and there are some good, strong, alt.country-type choruses too...
Q (11/01/2000)
...A respectable follow-up to BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE....there are plenty of comfortably sung and strummed numbers that get the job done...
CMJ (10/01/2000)
Included in CMJ's Year's Best Triple A Albums from 2000.
CMJ (01/08/2001)
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