{"id":23400,"date":"2023-10-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23400"},"modified":"2023-10-25T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:34:59","slug":"the-jeffrey-lee-pierce-sessions-project-the-task-has-overwhelmed-us-glitterhouse-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23400","title":{"rendered":"The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – ‘The Task Has Overwhelmed Us’ (Glitterhouse Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Featuring Dave Gahan, Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan, Warren Ellis, Mick Harvey, Lydia Lunch, Mark Stewart, Jim Jones, Jim Jarmusch, Peter Hayes, The Coathangers, Suzie Stapleton, Duke Garwood & more. If that list doesn’t set your musical taste buds tingling then I don’t know what will. Quite simply I got excited way back when I first heard there was going to be a volume four of Jeffrey Lees sessions. I loved Gun Club from the very first time I heard their music and everything thereafter moving through the posthumous releases I couldn’t get enough so when these releases came out and seeing the list of contributors I was delighted and this is no exception. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten years in the making by the late Gun Club titan\u2019s guitarist Cypress Grove, the Project has always
aimed to highlight Pierce as one of America\u2019s most fascinatingly influential singer-songwriters of
the last century while propelling his outpourings into modern times by placing it in the hands of
former collaborators, friends and fans. Following 2009\u2019s We Are Only Riders, 2012\u2019s The Journey Is Long, and 2014\u2019s Axels and Sockets, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us presents stellar interpretations of tracks from Pierce\u2019s Gun Club and solo canons along with fresh works constructed from rehearsal skeletons its simply exquisite. Described as a wild ride doesn’t do it justice from these skeletons and Frankenstein songs have been fleshed out into lean mean rockin machines from Depeche modes Dave Gahan\u2019s opening haunted piano ballad take on \u2018Mother of Earth\u2019 through, Mark Lanegan singing \u2018Go Tell The Mountain\u2019 backed by Ellis and Cave (who back Jeffrey himself on \u2018Yellow Eyes\u2019) is simply haunting and the warmth in the vocal is spine-tingling. Cave duetting beautifully with Debbie Harry again on \u2018On the Other Side\u2019. The blitzkrieg bop of ‘Debbie By The Christmas Tree’ is only matched by a thumping Jim Jones ‘Going Down The Red River’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it’s beautiful balladeering then Suzie Stapleton doing ‘Secret Fires’ will give you the chills. But the Debbie Harry and Nick Cave duet is simply wonderful no need for superlatives it walks the walk and talks the talk. there are eighteen tracks on offer and I could recount them all and their majestic beauty but I’ll trust you to buy this and revel in the genius and beauty of the music and these interpretations. Jeffrey Lee Pierce went too soon, way too soon he had so much more to offer on top of what he did leave us. Just buy it! it’s worth every second of your time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author:Dom Daley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Featuring Dave Gahan, Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan, Warren Ellis, Mick Harvey, Lydia Lunch, Mark Stewart, Jim Jones, Jim Jarmusch, Peter Hayes, The Coathangers, Suzie Stapleton, Duke Garwood & more. If that list doesn’t set your musical taste buds tingling then I don’t know what will. Quite simply I got excited way back when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4339,329,8354,934,5718,116,8351,3945,8352,8349,1277,8353,4087,166,8350],"class_list":["post-23400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-dave-gahan","tag-debbie-harry","tag-duke-garwood","tag-gun-club","tag-jim-jarmusch","tag-jim-jones","tag-lydia-lunch","tag-mark-lanegan","tag-mark-stewart","tag-mick-harvey","tag-nick-cave","tag-peter-hayes","tag-suzie-stapleton","tag-the-coathangers","tag-warren-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23402,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions\/23402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}