Chris Isaak

All the attention paid to Isaak's 1950s sound has resulted in people taking his songwriting talents for granted over the years. That said, both sound and songs seem to be off on this one. Whether it's the modern, digital feel of the session obscuring the power of his tunes or not, is hard to tell. Not bad at all, but it feels like Isaak's first misfire.

Decades after platoons of now-disappeared "roots rockers" raised their flags, Chris Isaak
still sings songs ravished by a dreamy out-of-time restlessness. For Isaak, the past has
always represented a high style to aspire to instead of a cause to take up. On this
collection, Isaak works with producer-musician John Shanks, who last year caught the
post-Eighties quintessence of Stevie Nicks; with Isaak, Shanks achieves a similar... More >