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Lou Barlow's struggled mightily this millennium, the once-revered songsmith mired in mediocre makeovers of Sebadoh and the Folk Implosion, bringing back both bands, after their initial deaths, to try and ride a few more miles on a pair of dead horses. With Bakesale recently clocking up its 10-year-anniversary — a high-school reunion that made many folks (like, oh, y'know, me) feel mighty old — it's been a long, long, long time since Barlow was on song. The most charming, moving, and probably best disc in this whole Sebadoh/Sentridoh/Folk Implosion/etc. canon (the live album, Lou Barlow Plays Waterfront, recorded in Sydney and issued in friends-and-family amounts by Spunk records way back in said day) is now coming up on its own nine-year anniversary. The fact that an impromptu live disc is Barlow's magnum opus says a lot about both songsmith and music-biz, the sincere simplicity that was his best quality getting lost amidst the sales-cognizant cynicism of the Folk Implosion and The Sebadoh. Now, with Emoh, the 38-year-old artist has come far enough to have come artistic full-circle. With his days as major-label unit-shifter vanished from pop-culture's goldfish memory, his first official solo album is on hand to remind us of what once made Barlow great. Centered on Lonesome Lou on an acoustic guitar, the disc leaves the songsmith's tunes, from the openly sentimental to the romantic, ragged, and smart-ass, largely unadorned, with the various bits of added instrumentage — strings, electric guitar, keys, rare drums — all gently gathered around that basic singer/songwriter backbone. And, as far as songs go, Barlow hasn't been this good in years. "Mary," in particular, is a hilarious pop song set to a rather natty melody, the tongue-in-cheek tale being told by a narrator who, after getting up to some on-the-side action with Mary, watches her turn around and tell the world it was an "immaculate conception." Barlow, however, deftly steers such comedy away from novelty-song territory with this simple, sweethearted refrain: "Mary, Mary, under veil of stars/ You changed the world, but you broke my heart." Speaking of such, it's no surprise that, across the album, it's the sad songs that end up saying so much. And the quartet of "Puzzle," "Imagined Life," "Monkey Begun," and "Legendary" all touch on touching profundity, Barlow wearing his sadsack sentiments and pithy observations on his sleeve; gently singing angsty outpourings to, and tales of domesticity fro, the emo(h) of his title really spelling Home in reverse, the meaning meaningful no matter which direction you read it.


by Anthony Carew




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