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1995
Briskly following Welcome To The Cruel World, a debut of startling lap-slide flash and panache, Californian Ben Harper has taken the mood several shades darker. He offers a come-on taste of last year's snake-hipped boogie in Ground On Down, Gold To Me and People Lead, but this time colours all his polite-conversation-killing themes & love, politics and religion & with unsettling guitar tones which range from suave discords to sheer noise. Harper's vocals being an impatient murmur, it's often as if Nina Simone's band had been joined by Neil Young on arc-welder. He's deep, powerful and original. However, his incantatory repetitions do rather run on and the psycho feeling is so insidious that a commercial breakthrough is not on the blueprint. Phil Sutcliffe pour Q
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