David J, Estranged - 59m 50s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Guitar Man	5:41
2. Mess Up	3:26
3. Pulling Arrows From Our Heels	3:42
4. Ruined Cities	5:26
5. Static Cling	3:38
6. In the Great Blue Whenever	4:38
7. Crashed	4:23
8. If Anything Should Ever Happen To You	4:42
9. The Ballad of August and June	5:41
10. Bright in Your Absence	5:22
11. Trophy Wife	3:43
12. Arc of Return	4:10
13. Estranged	4:08
14. Time in the Sun	1:02

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Review

David J seventh solo album is a cerebral affair complete with brainy wordplay, sly cultural references, and dreamy folkloric parables. This is where the former Bauhaus/Love & Rockets bassist indulges his whimsical side, creating eccentric and morally ambiguous characters who offer their wry and spot-on asides on modern life and love. While J's singing is deceptively mild, his lyrics are not. He may no longer be a member of Bauhaus, but his irony and dark humor is still honed to a sharp edge, as he paints skewed musical portrait of an array of damaged characters like the near psychopath of "Mess Up," or the teed off husband who plots an elaborate revenge fantasy for his partner in "If Anything Ever Happened to You." However, the artist seems to have shed most of the chilly, dissonant musicianship that colored the music of his former bands, adopting an almost Beatlesque sound. Breaking up the prettiness is the feral and guitar playing of Dave Navarro on "Guitar Man," the Bread chestnut that David J. seems inordinately attached to, having covered it previously on an EP. --Jaan Uhelszki

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