Album: “Breach”

Description

The Wallflowers: Jakob Dylan (vocals, guitar); Michael Ward (guitar, background vocals); Rami Jaffee (keyboards, vibraphone, background vocals); Greg Richling (bass, percussion, background vocals); Mario Calire (drums). <p>Additional personnel includes: Elvis Costello, Jon Brion, Frank Black, Mitchell Froom, Lenny Castro, Greg Leisz, Gary Louris, Mike Campbell. <p>Recorded at Sunset Sound and Sound Factory, Hollywood, California; Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California; Sound Inn, Tokyo, Japan. <p>After the multi-platinum and Grammy-winning success of 1996's BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE, Jakob Dylan finally got out from under the heavy mantle of his famous father's legacy and started a legacy of his own. For his millennial follow-up, the younger Dylan continued down the path of rich lyricism and well-crafted pop songs with help from the production team of Andrew Slater (Fiona Apple/Macy Gray) and singer-songwriter Michael Penn. <p>Despite all his success and acclaim, Dylan comes off as more the hard-edged realist than bright-eyed optimist. Song topics draw from the sour experiences of life and a quest for higher meaning, manifested in numbers like the enigmatic and weary seeker-of-truth ode "I've Been Delivered," and the message of regret that is "Some Flowers Bloom Dead." Famous friends also pop up along the way to lend a hand, among the most notable being Elvis Costello, who helps out on the rollicking break-up song "Murder 101" and Frank Black, whose harmonies help shape "Letters From the Wasteland," a moody, desolate song of abandonment. Adding a nice counter-balancing coda to the slight disillusionment coloring BREACH is "Babybird," a sweet-sounding hidden track that reverberates with a music-box melody throughout.