Cunningham, Rosalie - To Shoot Another Day CD
SKU
23-EANTCD 1111
“Alright, let’s cut to the chase: To Shoot Another Day is a Technicolor fever dream, a séance with rock’s wildest ghosts, and Rosalie Cunningham is the medium channeling every twisted, glamorous echo from the ‘60s and ‘70s straight to your speakers. This is no desperate grab for innovation, no, Rosalie’s too smart for that. Instead, she’s firing up the engines of classic rock and rolling out her own strange, spectacular theater.
This album is dripping in acid-soaked guitars, Bond-style cinematic flair, and a gothic cabaret vibe that’d make Bowie and Barrett nod in approval. Each track here is a doorway, and that first one drops you straight into the middle of a Bond flick: Rosalie’s voice, smooth and sly, whispering, “I wear a briefcase and tie, and I feel like a spy.” It’s pure cinematic swagger, drenched in smoky atmospherics, with guitars and piano that ooze style in every bar.
And then there’s “Timothy Martin’s Conditioning School”, a freak show of sound, a hall of mirrors reflecting back the strangeness of classic psych, with a wink at the Beatles’ most unhinged moments. This isn’t mere homage to “Eleanor Rigby” and company. No, Rosalie’s nodding to the weird old gods, all while building her own twisted temple right beside them.
And those tracks! “The Premiere” closes the show with a haunting Morricone-esque tumbleweed of sound, only to be topped off by bonus cuts like “Return of the Ellington”, a stomping Tull-inspired rocker that reminds us Rosalie’s got the chops and the guts to go as hard as she pleases.
Every song here is a doorway, leading you deeper into Rosalie’s world, where rock’s ghosts still have something new to say. This album didn’t just make me hit repeat; it kept me there, spinning in Rosalie’s mad circus for days. This is the album you didn’t know you needed, and trust me, it’s an invitation you won’t want to turn down. Highly recommended.”-Jose Zegara Holder
- LabelEsoteric Antenna
- UPC5013929481138