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Sacrificial Cake

Current price: $49.99
Sacrificial Cake
Sacrificial Cake

Barnes and Noble

Sacrificial Cake

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Reunited with multi-instrumentalist , her collaborator on project, on her second solo album again clearly demonstrates her musical abilities as being no less adept than those of her bandmate/partner (whose own solo debut album, , was released in concert along with ). All songs were written wholly by her, excepting a weirdly jaunty, live radio-session take of the track accompanied only by on acoustic guitar. Unlike the constantly varied album, has more of a unified feel, being mostly moody and mysterious with echoed or muffled percussion, and it's all done in a distinctly different way than ' at-times obsessively structured epic pounding. for instance, relies on an understated approach throughout, with low keyboard tones and percussive shuffling floating beneath her husky spoken-word recitation and wordless backing vocals. Another quality of her music that gets good play is her ear for, and creative work with, samples; includes some wonderfully odd reworkings of crowd and orchestral snippets. While familiar religious and sexual imagery and scenarios dominate the lyrics, a more general playfulness appears as well, on such numbers like a recitation of desirable qualities that are indeed anything but logical, and on the one actual rocker on the disc, a wickedly barbed analysis of what it takes to play the music industry game as a female rock star, along with what you lose along the way. Another equally striking lyrical thread emerges in fairy-tale-like scenarios, as in and ; both sound playful and quite disturbing, in the best children's story fashion. Not merely an accomplished statement of musical independence, is simply a great album. It should be of interest to anyone who's unafraid of moving beyond the musical norm. ~ Ned Raggett

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Barnes & Noble does business -- big business -- by the book. As the #1 bookseller in the US, it operates about 720 Barnes & Noble superstores (selling books, music, movies, and gifts) throughout all 50 US states and Washington, DC. The stores are typically 10,000 to 60,000 sq. ft. and stock between 60,000 and 200,000 book titles. Many of its locations contain Starbucks cafes, as well as music departments that carry more than 30,000 titles.

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