Thalia Zedek made her name in the early '90s with Come, an extraordinarily intense Boston band whose rough-hewn, bluesy alt.rock radically distinguished them from their peers. After abandoning Come, Zedek went solo. Trust Not Those...(the title is a scrambled fortune cookie message) suggests the Greek rebetika tradition as overhauled by The Dirty Three, but Zedek's gruff, resolutely mournful vocals and the relentless see-sawing rhythms stop the album's potential energy dead in its tracks. By the close of play, it sounds like its very lifeblood is draining through the speakers.
Thalia Zedek made her name in the early ’90s with Come, an extraordinarily intense Boston band whose rough-hewn, bluesy alt.rock radically distinguished them from their peers. After abandoning Come, Zedek went solo. Trust Not Those…(the title is a scrambled fortune cookie message) suggests the Greek rebetika tradition as overhauled by The Dirty Three, but Zedek’s gruff, resolutely mournful vocals and the relentless see-sawing rhythms stop the album’s potential energy dead in its tracks. By the close of play, it sounds like its very lifeblood is draining through the speakers.
