Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Perfidia | | 0:55 | | 2 | | For One More Look At You | | 3:20 | | 3 | | Love | | 3:27 | | 4 | | My Endless Fall | | 2:10 | | 5 | | The Eyes Of The Lord | | 3:27 | | 6 | | Bossman Piss (In My Lemonade) | | 3:49 | | 7 | | To Serve You | | 4:17 |
See more tracks| 8 | | Planet Rock | | 3:26 | | 9 | | Infidel Blues | | 3:29 | | 10 | | Glorious | | 3:47 | | 11 | | Pocket Mouse | | 2:54 | | 12 | | Birth Control | | 2:56 | | 13.1 | | Godmusic | | 3:40 | | 13.2 | | (silence) | | 5:00 | | 13.3 | | Untitled | | 1:41 |
* Items below may differ depending on the release.
|
|
Review
With his previous album, Black Music, Marc Anthony Thompson, a.k.a. Chocolate Genius, tried to prove with melancholy, cracked soul what a cruel, limiting stereotype that title could be. Thompson tries to tear down his own album title on Godmusic as well; most of the songs here are about the impossibility of faith and devotion. He's resigned to the sinner role on "Infidel Blues," pleading, "Father, forgive me, for yes, I have sinned/But to drink her bath water/I'd do it all over again." On "Pocket Mouse," it's false gods - namely imperialist… Read More America, with its "Spacious skies and power tools/Guns, crack, high school" - that undermine the hope for spirituality. As a songwriter, Thompson pledges allegiance to his own moody doctrine, managing intimate confession and ironic distance all at once. By swaddling his heretical sentiments in easy, jangly arrangements that pull from power-guitar rock, country and Seventies funk, Thompson molds Godmusic into an opiate of its own. JON CARAMANICA
(RS 877 - September 13, 2001)
|
