Audio CD review:
Thea Gilmore - Rules For Jokers

Thea Gilmore - Rules For Jokers

Band: Thea Gilmore Title: Rules For Jokers Rating: Release Date: Media: Audio CD Tracks:

Customer Review THE album of 2001, perhaps even the millenium. She's a little bit bluesy, a little bit funky, a little bit folky and a little bit jazzy, a little bit rock chick, a little bit grunge (and yet a little bit troubadour?). . but that don't make her any less brilliant. Rules For Jokers is anybody's album for 2001. Thea Gilmore is a wonderful songwriter and this new collection will both hook you immediately and then gradually draw you further in with every catchy one-liner and infectious melody. The lyrics alone read like a poetry book, and then she goes and puts utterly captivating tunes to these astonishing words. There are kicking songs here that rock along and put a massive smile on your face. This Girl Is Taking Bets, with its repetitious hook and mesmerising wordplay, is an absolute belter - one of many, including Benzedrine and Saviours And All. At the other end are the quieter acoustic numbers such as Holding Your Hand and The Things We Never Said that give the album a real depth of feeling. With a list of instruments that include kalimba, cimbala, mbira, Q-chord, slide didgeridoo and accordion, many of them played by Thea herself, it all adds up to a masterpiece. Thea Gilmore is a prolific artist as well. Just twenty one and she has three albums to her name, two released within six months of each other, and even those two had a mini album - check out As If - sandwiched in between. But despite this abundance of material you will not be able to find one weak track. . You can see a complete list of all Thea Gilmore discography, or go back to the Thea Gilmore tabs