Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0606949074524 Label: Interscope Records Manufacturer: Interscope Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Interscope Records Release Date: October 10, 2000 Sales Rank: 38437 Studio: Interscope Records
Album Description: Special UK edition featuring 'Sleepwalker' demo & video.
Amazon.com: The Wallflowers' third album isn't so much a breach birth as it is past-due. But Jakob Dylan claimed he needed the four years off to come to terms with whether or not he could plumb his own life for material. It appears he can, because here the songwriter tears the veil off his complicated relationship with his famous father and uses it as a vehicle to express some of the same moments of self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy that we all experience, even if we aren't related to Bob Dylan. This newfound candor in the formerly abstruse singer makes for a much more authentic, emotionally affective record, whether he's wearing his neuroses on his sleeve or reinventing old slave spirituals in 'Mourning Train.' And even if you don't believe that the Dylan paterfamilias ever castigated his son like 'Hand Me Down' infers ('Now look at you / With your worn out shoes / Living proof evolution is through'), it makes for compelling listening, made even more persuasive by the Wallflowers' sparse, muscular playing, which evokes the specter of those titans of classic rock: Jackson Browne, the Eagles, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. --Jaan Uhelszki
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Rating: - "Every lesson I've unlearned..."
Breach by the Wallflowers is their most creative and best album to date. How can you not get shivers when you listen to Jakob Dylan's silky and husky voice. His lyrics are pure poetry, who said he's not as good as his famous pop? Standout tracks include: Letters from the Wasteland, Hand me Down, Sleepwalker, I've Been Delivered, Witness, Mourning Train, and Up From Under. If you want an intelligent and fun album then Breach is for you. The Wallflowers have never recorded a bad album so go ahead and pick this up today, you won't regret it. Happy listening!
Rating: - This is where they're reaching the pinnacle
I liked the Wallflowers from the beginning, but "Breach" is where you start to see the lyrics become personal. Jakob Dylan's reached down deep and come up with some winners. "Murder 101", and "Some Flowers Bloom Dead" are two favorites--right now. I cannot consistently say there's just one song on any Wallflowers CD. Their music is consistently good and interesting even when it's not the most recent.
Rating: - A wonderful album, one of the best of the 1990's....
I was sitting in a movie theater awaiting Darren Arononfsky's film Requiem for a Dream, and they were playing this over the audio system in the theater. I loved it, and I went out and bought it as soon as I could. It's a wonderful album, one of the Wallflowers's best albums. When I hear this band and its brilliant leader, Jakob Dylan, I never think of Bob Dylan. Jakob has his own incredible style and if you didn't know he was the son of Bob, you would never guess it. I didn't buy this album out of any sympathy for Jakob being Bob's son. He's earned his bread, so to speak (for the record, Bob has another son Jesse who is a filmmaker. His films are lousy). The opener, Letters from the Wasteland, is superb, with a great instrumental break at the end. Sleepwalker is one of my favorites, too, but there are 2 songs here that are instant classics. The song I've Been Delivered is probably the best song Jakob Dylan ... Read More
Rating: - Great Album
This is a super album to hang out with friends and listen over a drink.
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