Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
The Brave And The Bold
Release Date: Jan 24, 2006
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Record label: Overcoat / Domino
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Album Review: The Brave And The Bold by Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Fairly Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 6/10
Well, this one is a surprise. The Brave and the Bold is an all-covers collaboration between Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham) and Tortoise, and it's got a set of songs that has to be among the most eclectic of any such project, ever. From Melanie to Devo to Richard Thompson to Lungfish to Milton Nascimento, this is one interesting mix. Some of the songs are done reasonably faithfully to the originals.
Opinion: Very Good
The Brave And The Bold chronicles an iceboat journey of co-captains Will Oldham and Tortoise into the charted but frozen waters of pop and rock’s thinning edges. As they soldier through, both singer and band rest and bathe in the comfort of what they've done recently and successfully. The rabid yodel of Oldham's quasi-Appalachian hillside adjudication, so predictably central to the Palace era, never once bubbles through the molasses yawn here.