This Fool Can Die Now

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All Music Guide - Stewart Mason
After four albums that garnered regular (and not unwarranted) comparisons to both Cat Power and PJ Harvey, British born, Oregon based singer/songwriter Scout Niblett has turned her sights to something a bit more exploratory. Throughout This Fool Can Die Now, there's a subtle but unmistakable experimental feel very much akin to Scott Walker's more recent albums, such as Tilt and The Drift. Of course, it's not as if these 14 songs sound like Walker -- no one sounds like Scott Walker but Scott Walker -- but there's a similar fascination with minimalism, repetition, and dramatic dynamic shifts, and throughout this album, Niblett experiments with her vocal phrasing and range ...
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All Music Guide - Stewart Mason
After four albums that garnered regular (and not unwarranted) comparisons to both Cat Power and PJ Harvey, British born, Oregon based singer/songwriter Scout Niblett has turned her sights to something a bit more exploratory. Throughout This Fool Can Die Now, there's a subtle but unmistakable experimental feel very much akin to Scott Walker's more recent albums, such as Tilt and The Drift. Of course, it's not as if these 14 songs sound like Walker -- no one sounds like Scott Walker but Scott Walker -- but there's a similar fascination with minimalism, repetition, and dramatic dynamic shifts, and throughout this album, Niblett experiments with her vocal phrasing and range in a very Walker-like fashion, veering unexpectedly from a flirtatious coo to raw, throaty shrieking to a Karen Dalton-like folk-blues wail. The resulting songs aren't completely foreign to Niblett's longtime fans -- the opening "Do You Want to Be Buried with My People?," a duet with Will Oldham, is familiar countrified alt folk -- but there is a bracing fearlessness to This Fool Can Die Now that finally fully differentiates Scout Niblett from the rest of the "weird folk" boomlet.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/9/2007
  • Label: Too Pure Records
  • UPC: 644918020820
  • Catalog Number: 208

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Do You Want to Be Buried with My People? (5:41)
  2. 2 Kiss (6:09)
  3. 3 Moon Lake (2:01)
  4. 4 Let Thine Heart Be Warned (3:46)
  5. 5 Your Last Chariot (2:33)
  6. 6 Black Hearted Queen (3:31)
  7. 7 River of No Return (2:35)
  8. 8 Nevada (5:27)
  9. 9 Baby Emma (3:32)
  10. 10 Yummy (4:34)
  11. 11 Dinosaur Egg (3:51)
  12. 12 Hide and Seek (5:07)
  13. 13 Comfort You (2:53)
  14. 14 Fishes and Honey (4:02)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Scout Niblett Primary Artist, Track Performer
Alison Chesley Track Performer
Chris Saligoe Track Performer
Kristian Goddard Track Performer
Technical Credits
Steve Albini Engineer
Van Morrison Composer
Lionel Newman Composer
Traditional Composer
Scout Niblett Composer
David Shrigley Composer
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