Ginger Wildheart - The Pessimist's Companion (2022) [FLAC] {Wicked Cool Records WKC 93851}
Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2022/06/12 RTLDATE: 2022/04/22
GENRE: Americana FORMAT: 425 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 52:02
RELEASE: Wicked Cool Records WKC 93851
ORiGiN: US MATRiX: 24428-CD-0822 22-059-18
with log/cue/nfo/m3u/sfv/300 dpi scans.
TheRockPit (dot) net adds...
After the news about The Wildhearts disbanding recently, the good news is that
there is Ginger album just on the horizon. Well when I say new, it's actually an
expanded version of his 2019 very limited Round Records release "The Pessimist's
Companion" this time on Wicked Cool Records. For those lucky enough to snag one
of the originals it's a pretty rare item now so hence the expansion and
re-release. This time instead of the 10 original tracks it's boosted to a rather
satisfying 15 - that's 50% more Ginger!.
As Ginger says: "Fresh from a break up, a lonely alcoholic living in a caravan
poured his feelings into a collection of songs, as dark as they are
confessional. The landscape is more eclectic than its predecessor, Ghost In The
Tanglewood, but cut from the same tree. The Pessimist's Companion never got a
proper commercial release, due to one thing or another, and was hastily mixed
and compiled to meet its pre-order deadline. Rough, urgent and entirely in
keeping with the subject matter. This is a deeply personal release for me. I
hope you find something here to warm the colder nights alone."
The Wicked Cool version adds 5 new tracks and a renamed "Reverse" rebirthed in
name only as "In Reverse". Interestingly we kick off proceedings with the second
track from the original tracklisting the polished Folk edged Pop of "Why Aye (Oh
You)" and the wonderful opener "May the Restless Find Sleep" is now placed right
at the end of the new release.
This is a record that runs the gamut from the gentle breezy, country-tinged Pop
of "I Love You so Much I'm Leaving" and the thoughtful laid back contemplation
of a relationship that is "In Reverse" to the light, bright, yet somehow
downcast eclecticism of "You Will Let Me Down Again" which contains a little of
everything from Dream Academy to 70's singer songwriter Pop! And that my friends
is the genius of this release it comes at you from every conceivable angles and
elicits feelings and memories without ever sounding remotely like a pastiche,
more like a melting pot that is constantly refreshed.
The first 'new' track "No Regrets" has a forlornness to it that feels like tears
through a smile, it's full of punctuating bells against a longing lyrics that
gives it real body. It is juxtaposed with another new track "Detachment" which
wrings despair into a glass labelled 'Pop'.
The piano-led "A Better Love" is beautiful love song punctuated with a lilting
guitar and an almost mantra-like chorus that could actually make you weep. It's
one of my very favourite tracks Ginger has recorded and from someone who has
been there since those first Wildhearts gigs that's as big a compliment as I can
bestow. Set against the title track "The Pessimists Companion" with its more
upbeat contemplation of detachment tempered with connection. It sounds like a
riff on the isolation we have all been through and lyrically it's a wonder.
"Barbed Wire and Roses" is brimming with atmosphere and quite different and when
it bursts into the refrain you fee it might juts catch fire, but that wouldn't
be in-keeping with this rather introspective album, so it's content to simmer
not boil.
The final dozen tracks are split evenly between the old and the new. The first
new track "I Don't Wanna Work on This Song No More" even sports a tongue in
cheek title to go with the jangly comedic shuffle! It's just fun, that's all,
and a nice circuit-breaker. Another new song follows: "Wanna Be Yours" opens
with a stanza of comedic lines that just burst out, it’s a sort of anti-cliche
love song set against a quirky countrified guitar. Both songs are of course
wonderfully out of place!
By complete contrast "Sweet Wanderlust" is lush and shiny country tinged Pop;
whilst "There is a House" picks up the Folk threads again and weaves a dark
tale. We close out with the quirky "Stalemate" that actually really reminds me
of the very first days of the Wildhearts and songs like "Nothing Ever Changes"
well at least it transported me there anyway. We close with the opening track
from the 'Round Records' release "May the Restless Find Peace" a wonderful
acoustic number that is almost hymnal in its refrain. It's perhaps more apt to
close than open.
Ginger is one of those artists that never fails to take you with him and is
never scared to just open the door and see where it takes him. If you're a fan
you will of course know this. If he’s new to you then I envy the journey you
will be going on.
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Yet another Ginger repackage. Nothing here is "new" to the collector, but the
extra songs are new to CD.
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