Caught In Trap & I Can't Back Out Cause I Love You

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MusicAmazon.com With the album's opening words, "He's always giving you free advice / Of ways you can avoid telling him no" (from "Are You the Trash"), Mark Eitzel sets the tone for all that follows. This is Eitzel's music at its best, stripped down to its essential sadness, dominated by the echoing of his acoustic guitar and bourbon-soaked vocals. Even the beautiful accompaniments--from Kid Congo Powers, Yo La Tengo's James McNew, and Sonic Youth's Steve Shelly--that grace 5 of the album's 11 tracks are beautifully, if not painstakingly, understated. Possibly no other living songwriter can mix passion and resignation so powerfully without even a hint of self pity. This is poetry from the corner of the bar--from the man sitting alone watching everyone else's misery--all told with grace, humility and a touch of black humor. --Bill Snyder Review Caught in a Trap is essentially a stripped-down solo affair; six out of 11 tracks feature Eitzel along with his blue guitar and his famous melancholia. The rest of the songs include bare, buzzing rock backing from Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, bassist James McNew, and Gun Club/Cramps guitarist Kid Congo Powers.... Some of the endless Bukowskiesque barrage of empty barrooms, lonely flops, and desperate bedrooms is starting to wear a bit thin.... The resulting record is caught somewhere between the embarrassed austerity of Song of Love (Eitzel's fumbling but wonderful 1991 live album), and his edgy work with the gritty Toiling Midgets. -- No Depression

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