Joe Parker & Jackie Paper – What’s Wrong With Broken Glass (Music Review)
By Andrew Duncan • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Indie Rock, ReviewsJoe Parker & Jackie Paper
What’s Wrong With Broken Glass
SoTone Records
Rating: 3 out of 5
Link: http://www.sotones.co.uk/order.php?release_id=54
Jackie Paper (not the character from Puff The Magic Dragon or the urban slang term for the paper used to roll marijuana, but the folk singer from Southampton) has teamed up with Lonely Joe Parker to create this split EP.
Jackie Paper is up first with his toy piano and an acoustic guitar. “All The Wine” rolls down the hill with all the ingredients for a great fairy tale and a wonderful folk song. It could be the banjo that makes this song float like a Bad Religion song set to the tone of Blind Pilot streaming from the Ozarks.
Okay, that’s just one song out of the six. Paper beams with confidence for his half of the bargain. Both Paper and Parker collaborate for “Down Among The Dead Men” which sounds like something you would find inside The Haunted Mansion ride only if there was a dirty pub for the ghosts to revel in.
Parker puts on a Billy Bragg snear with the poetic tinge of a mellow Franz Ferdinand song. More of a realist than an urban romantic, Parker’s views of the street is at face value. Dirt is just dirt, but can you blame him as these songs were written while being stranded in the U.S. after all of his possessions were stolen. It may be a stale impression, but Parker presents a degree of charm to the rust that covers his tales of woe.
Both musicians compliment each other in a way that, only through this EP, they can solely do it together.
Andrew Duncan is a journalist who has migrated to the forces of academia. He has written for various publications including Chord, Heckler, Readyset...Aesthetic, and a vast array of alternative press contributions. When not roaming the streets of Indianapolis, he is either addicted to KXCI, making music, or striving to watch every film listed on IMDB.
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