Audio CD review:
Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored

Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored

Band: Evan Dando Title: Baby I'm Bored Rating: Release Date: 25 February, 2003 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Repeat 2: My Idea 3: Rancho Santa Fe 4: Waking Up 5: Hard Drive 6: Shots Is Fired 7: It Looks Like You 8: Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is the Same Part I Can Live Without 9: Why Do You Do This to Yourself? 10: All My Life 11: Stop My Head 12: In the Grass All Wine Colored

Editoral Review His well documented difficulties behind him, it's heartening that Dando has returned with a set of genuinely lovely songs. In his thirties and no longer the poster boy of the post-grunge generation, Evan Dando returns a wiser and seemingly chastened man on Baby I'm Bored, his first studio album since the Lemonheads' 1996 finale, Car Button Cloth. Visceral, vital, and yearning, Baby I'm Bored boasts a wealth of gems. The opener, "Repeat," is vulnerable yet quietly resolute; "It Looks Like You" is as spectral and plangent as the Byrds; "Hard Drive" rehabilitates that widely despised genre, the list song. "The Same Thing," on the other hand, hints at mental turmoil ("I can't believe how far I slipped"), while "Why Do You Do This to Yourself?" berates a kamikaze party animal over the most muted! of acoustic strums. There is resolution in "All My Life," which gratefully delineates newer, sounder perspectives ("All my life I thought I needed the things I didn't need at all"), while the giddy, bucolic closer, "In the Grass All Wine Colored," is as pristine and pure as a baby's conscience. Members of Calexico, Giant Sand, Come, and Spacehog chip in support, but the focus is fully on Dando, an artist reborn, restored, and far from bored. --Ian Gittins .. You can see a complete list of all Evan Dando discography, or go back to the Evan Dando tabs