fuck, just started Disc 2 of Fast Man / Raider Man, this might be my fave track between both discs...

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FRANK BLACK
“Fastman Raiderman” (COOKCD376)
released 19th June 2006
Nobody is as fast as Frank Black. His work with the Pixies was like a string of firecrackers: tiny songs, most of them just over a couple of minutes long, that pop against the cold stone surface of pop music, each one leaving its mark on the landscape.
Nobody raids the pop music trove like Frank Black. From the formative years as a punk rock innovator through, on last year’s Honeycomb, Americana, he grabs every treat within his reach, rolls it around, and hands it back, Frank Blackened to the core.
Thus, the title of his new, most ambitious record: a sprawl of music on two discs, recorded over nearly two years with unlikely accomplices – veterans from immortal rhythm sections (Motown, Stax, Muscle Shoals, Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew), guys you’d never expect to find working together (Levon Helm from the Band, Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Buddy Miller, honky-tonk hero Marty Brown, songwriting enigma P. F. Sloan), plus a former Catholic or two.
Fastman Raiderman picks up where Black’s Honeycomb album left off. Paired again with producer Jon Tiven (B.B. King, Wilson Pickett, Graham Parker), he offers 27 songs, from the somewhat bizarre (“Kiss My Ring”) to reflections on the dark sides of recent history (“Raiderman”) and the almost hallucinogenic (“Dog Sleep”) and the overlay of the lyrically obscure and the body-punch, visceral groove (“In The Time Of My Ruin”).
What’s interesting is that each of these four particular songs stem from a different recording session, each one exposing a distinctive shade of Black. The more you listen, the clearer their nuances become – and, paradoxically, the more the big picture comes together.