Jim Carroll

The Jim Carroll Band play like a well-rehearsed New York Dolls–blunt, loud and catchy,
but lacking that late, great group's vehement humor and spontaneity. Yet what's most
striking about their debut album, Catholic Boy, isn't the music but the words. There are
reams of them, and they flood almost every line with endless detail. Unifying metaphors,
even when they're overwrought, are exhaustively and exhaustingly sustained.... More >