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Sweet
Soil Music
Like the kid with "most likely to succeed" under his name in the yearbook, Jay Farrar was doomed to failure. The true talent behind alt.country pioneers Uncle Tupelo, Farrar could only watch while former partner Jeff Tweedy's band Wilco gained in confidence and critical approval. Two solo records in and Farrar looked set to become the proverbial voice in the wilderness. Which Makes Terroir Blues all the more mind-blowing. A concept album in search of a concept, songs are punctuated by spacey jams and backwards-looped instrumental breakdowns; sitars fight with cellos and all the while Farrar sails above, finally presiding over his fully realised, haunted and haunting masterpiece. - Simmy Richman |
