Georgia's Horse - The Mammoth Sessions

2/5 stars
Album review by Ally Brown.
Published 29 May 2009

Georgia's Horse is a vehicle for the rather gorgeous voice of Teresa Maldonado, a Texan chanteuse who sketches similar characters to PJ Harvey on To Bring You My Love: aged-too-young girls and murderously neurotic wives. Maldonado's debut album The Mammoth Sessions is a record of intense intimacy, with production polish spurned in preference for dust-covered twanging guitars, eerily straining violins, melancholy piano motifs, and that voice, slurred as if by sedatives.

In fact, it's all a little too sleepy, meaning the not-particularly-lengthy 53-minute running time feels a lot longer. If Maldonado can barely muster the energy to enunciate, it's little surprise that most songs are soporific in effect. A brief climax in Erzulie Dantor is stirring, but by the tenth track you'll be ready to drift off to sleep... and there's still three songs left to play.

 

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  • Having read many of your reviews now.
    I conclude: You're a pretentious arse with a bad ear, and who could do no better.

    Posted by - | Thursday January 2010 @ 18:24

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  • Teresa, I presume?

    Posted by Bobby Montes | Thursday January 2010 @ 18:33

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  • Haha! No not me. I actually kind of like this review. At least I know someone really listened ;) and I'm not English so wouldn't use 'arse' :) everyone is entitled to their opinion. It's what keeps the world fresh and beautiful. All these different opinions, ideas. Oh and I would never call someone out for not liking the music. How dare they not like everything I write ;) just love love love. Drunk and curious. That's all. So this is the second review I've read. Again, Ally is just being honest. It's a beautiful thing.

    Posted by Cityofnosun | Tuesday September 2010 @ 03:59

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