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I Drugstore della cantante Isabel Monteiros si rifanno al country atmosferico di
Cowboy Junkies e Mazzy Star, filtrato attraverso la sensibilita` degli shoegazer. I singoli Alive
(Honey), Modern Pleasure e Starcrossed (Go Discs) preludono all'album
Drugstore (Go DIscs, 1995),
opera di sottile seduzione che impiega anche armonie alla Pixies
(Speaker 12 e Solitary Party Groover).
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Drugstore, founded by vocalist Isabel Monteiros (Brazil via Britain)
and drummer Michael Chylinski,
is a British band that plays atmospheric country-rock in the vein of
Cowboy Junkies and
Mazzy Star, albeit filtered through a
shoegazing sensibility.
The singles Alive (Honey), Modern Pleasure and
Starcrossed (Go Discs) led to debut album
Drugstore (Go DIscs, 1995),
a work of subtle seduction that employs a skewed strategy a` la
Pixies
(Superglider, Nectarine, Solitary Party Groover,
Fader).
The album betrays a Velvet Underground fixation, both with Lou Reed's
decadent boogie and Nico's icy litanies.
Guitarist Daron Robinson is a mere accessory.
The album was followed by the single Injection.
New acquisition cellist Ian Burdge is, instead, quite crucial to the success of
White Magic For Lovers (Roadrunner, 1998), a more eclectic work whose
noisy Mondo Cane ("We all turn into ashes/ Welcome to the show")
and catchy Say Hello are hardly representative of the rest: the
flamenco of El President (a duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke), the
bossanova of Never Come Down, the waltz of The Funeral.
Monteiros' voice flows like a waterfall.
The tango of I Wanna Love You Like A Man is the natural continuation
of that album's program on
Songs For The Jet Set (Global Warming, 2001), but no less seductive
are Song For The Lonely and
Baby Don't Hurt Yourself (with Lambchop's Paul Niehaus on pedal-steel).
Continuing as well their Velvet Underground tribute,
The Party Is Over, Allegro Ma Non Troppo and
Hate are spirited ditties that could fit on the
first Velvet Underground album.
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