Issue 394

The Dresden Dolls

"I've just finished my breakfast in a fantastic cafe in East Berlin," explains Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer between mouthfuls, clearly enraptured by her surroundings. "I do love to travel, but I feel like I only get a really fleeting trace of any place I'm in or any person I meet. So it sort of feels like a constant cocktease, you know?"

I must say, that seems like the most perfect, characteristic response from Palmer, a woman whose songs are never short on beautiful, poetic bluntness. It's a perfect match for he Dolls' cabaret-style performance, which fits snugly into her twisted lyrical narratives.

Mr. Wednesday
The Garden Where Parties Grow
Independent

Newly-instated local heroes, Mr. Wednesday, have given me a rather difficult task with their debut long-player, 'The Garden Where Parties Grow'. I'll make no excuse for my unprofessionalism, but it always makes a record harder to review when you know the people, their audience, the studio and the producer; not to mention when you have heard a handful of the songs at various live shows in small, cramped venues.

Judged on that level, the easiest summary of this record is that it's absolutely amazing. Jawdropping. I am honestly in disbelief that a young Adelaide band could fill themselves with this much ambition, this much focus and, in a limited timeframe (two weeks) with limited funds, produce a record so astute, so measured, so layered and so fascinating.

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