Paul Soupiset - Acoustic Coffee And Tales From The Shot Herd

Friday 1st October 1999
Paul Soupiset - Acoustic Coffee And Tales From The Shot Herd

STYLE: Roots/Acoustic
RATING 4 4 4 4
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 323-CAS1042
LABEL: Flat Earth 951012
FORMAT: CD Album
ITEMS: 1

Reviewed by Trevor Kirk

Paul Soupiset is Texan and gives us seriously strange folk/roots music with decidedly off the wall song titles, as witness "Angel Gabriel In The House Of Maxwell" and the Guinness Book Of Records contendant "Acoustic Coffee(And Other Tales Of The Shot Herd, Including The Untimely Death, Burial And Resurrection Of Our Good Brother Buddy Layman In The Key Of G)"! Our man seems to have a severe caffeine fetish, as his vision of Heaven is for all the saints to drink the living coffee!! He also appears to have a hankering after the Celtic, as witness an Irish bagpipe intro to "Verses", a wedding song that is one of the stronger cuts. A lot of the tracks are allusory and it's difficult to work out what's getting at pretty much all the time;" Psalm 121" is as up-front as it gets, a haunting paraphrase with Korg synth accompaniment of the first two verses of the psalm. But even here, I'd just got into the song when it finished-two minutes 59 seconds of song with a 52 second intro left me feeling let down and wanting more. I like folk music, but a lot of this was too obtuse for me, the quality is decidedly uneven and some of the song lengths are too short for the songs to develop properly, almost as if inspiration dried up part-way through. Sadlys a miss.

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