Name: You Can't Win
Brand: Yep Roc Records
SKU: 584987
Price: 9.96 USD
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You Can't Win

Rating

Album: You Can't Win
#	Song Title	Time
1)	You Can't Win
2)	We Winter Wrens
3)	Heather Remind Me How This Ends
4)	Beachcomber Blues
5)	You Don't Want to Know
6)	Buffalo Gal
7)	In Love with the Doubt
8)	What One Bottle Can Do
9)	33-53.9øN/118-38.8øW
10)	Just Don't Leave Town
11)	My Still Life

Performer Notes

Dolorean: Al James (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Jay Clarke (electric piano, vibraphone); Ben Nugent (background vocals); Emil Amos, James Adair.
Personnel: Al James (vocals, acoustic guitar); Emil Amos (vocals, electric guitar); Ben Nugent (vocals, drums, percussion); Jonathan Drews, Laura Gibson (vocals); Peter Broderick (banjo, mandolin); Jay Clarke (piano, organ); James Adair (bass guitar).
Additional personnel: Jack Gibson (vocals); Peter Broderick, Jonathan Drews, Laura Gibson.
Audio Mixers: Rob Oberdorfer; Jeff Stuart Saltzman.
Recording information: Friendly Ghost; Meno Films; Type Foundry, Portland, OR.
Author: James Arthur Salter.
Dolorean have never exactly been a happy bunch, but following the relatively sunny climes of VIOLENCE IN THE SNOWY FIELDS, their sadcore folk-rock takes a bleaker turn on YOU CAN'T WIN. Plaintive, lonely vocals and reflective acoustic guitars and keyboards paint pictures of emotional disconnection and heartache, hardly a new thing for the band, but the production ventures further afield than before, exploring sonic textures beyond the rootsy, Neil Young/Will Oldham template of previous Dolorean albums.

Professional Reviews

CMJ (p.43) - "[I]nstantly satisfying. The album floats along in a Pink Floyd manner, dragging along dreary memories of loss and failure."

No Depression (p.116) - "The songs murmur a quiet desolation; the band improvises around them elegantly, furtively. Amos is especially eloquent..."

No Depression (p.88) - "[T]he tension between lyrical brooding and musical reverie yields a near-cinematic catharsis."