Alex Chilton - Feudalist Tarts LP

Mitch sayz:

Mitch sayz:

"After three classic LPs with Big Star and the ramshackle perfect imperfection of Like Flies On Sherbet - where do you go?

Chilton’s 1985 return sees him filter his pop chops through Memphis soul production, with a horns section joining the fold, while still keeping it rough around the edges. Songs in the classic Chilton pop manner (y’know the kind of thing that could have been written for a 60s group, drawling “baby” and singing about cars,) matched with a political turn with songs about the mounting AIDS crisis, US imperialism, and the perils of underclass living. 

An album that while not as immediate and rockin’ as Like Flies is a real grower!"

Robert Christgau sayz:

"After ten years of falling-down flakedom only a cultist could love or even appreciate, Chilton looks around and straightens up. The bottlenecked "Lost My Job" comes close to such beacons of his lost decade as "Bangkok" and "Take Me Home and Make Me Like It." The precocious Memphis soul singer and the prescient American pop eccentric both get their chops into the Carla Thomas and Slim Harpo covers. And when he slips into Willie Turbinton's amazing "Thank You John"--that name is upper-cased and lower-cased simultaneously--he remembers that it isn't only too-much-too-soon white boys who get twisted around in this world. A-"