ALBUM REVIEWS / POP : Dish, “Boneyard Beach,” Interscope ***.
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An intriguing mix of guitar-driven garage-rock and more mannered, piano-based pop introspection comes to compelling fruition on the version of Bob Dylan and the Band’s “Tears of Rage” that anchors this North Carolina quartet’s major-label debut. Dana Kletter’s rich alto voice and Bo Taylor’s more rough-edged singing make for a tensile blend, sort of like X’s Exene Cervenka and John Doe with the genders reversed.
The original songs often lean toward the inward, reflective end of the equation, but the tension remains thanks to Taylor’s aggressive guitar playing and Jerry Key’s stuttered drumming. And when they pick it up, as in the mandolin-spiked Russian waltz “Odinokaya Gormon,” there’s a heightened and rewarding sense of drama.
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