Track Listing

1. Blood - Klashnekoff
2. Relate The Tale - King Creosote
3. The Meaning Of Lice - Stephin Merritt
4. Flies - Brian Eno With Robert Wyatt
5. The Fifth Plague - Laurie Anderson
6. Boils - Cody Chesnutt 2:41
7. Hailstones - The Tiger Lillies
8. Glittering Cloud (Locusts) - Imogen Heap
9. Darkness - Scott Walker
10. Katonah - Rufus Wainwright

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76348 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Compilation
• Original language: English

From Amazon.com
Here we have a sweet little pick-me-up: 10 songs based on the biblical plagues that occur in the book of Exodus, arranged in order. The whole thing was commissioned by a British arts council, and for better and worse it sounds like it. Super literate singer-songwriters (Scott Walker, Rufus Wainwright, Stephin Merritt) and a few wannabes (Imogen Heap, Tiger Lilies) contribute tunes that tend towards a dynamic miserabilism. The songs that avoid such an obvious approach (those by Merritt, Cody Chesnutt, and Laurie Anderson) are a nice respite, though Walker's song is pure, super-totally-scary a capella brilliance. As mixed bags go, this one is mixed enough to not disappoint, though one wishes the artists' work extended even a bit beyond such Hal Willner/NPR-approved fare. The highlights are Rufus Wainwright's woozy, lyrical "Katona" and "Flies," a beautiful, disturbing, and atmospheric number by Robert Wyatt with Brian Eno. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.

Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.