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Yoko Ono |
| Yes, I'm A Witch |
| Astralwerks | 2007 | Album |
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Think what you will of Yoko Ono, the woman simply refuses to go away. That's not to say that she's under any delusions when it comes to her reputation. On the title track of her latest album
Yes, I'm a Witch she speak sings the lyric "You might as well face the truth / I'm gonna stick around for quite awhile" with such venom and entitlement that you can imagine how easy it was for her to scare the bell bottoms off of Paul, George and Ringo back in the day.
Artistically, Ono has always been all over the map, but this time out she seems to have taken a page, or a friend or two from, son Sean Lennon. Every song on the disc is a collaboration (and a very loose one at times) with some of the biggest names in indie rock. Artists from The Flaming Lips to Cat Power to Peaches were given the opportunity to pick a song from Ono's back catalogue and then rework it. The resulting album, while definitely a mixed bag, is often an intriguing mostly listenable one at that.
Peaches got the chance to add a little 1980s sounding pizzazz to the old Double Fantasy track "Kiss Kiss Kiss". It's respectful a little too respectful when you consider that it's Peaches. One of the more doubtful collaborations, Le Tigre taking on "Sisters O Sisters" ends up being one of the strongest most straight-forward takes. Another one that works particularly well is Cat Power on "Revelations". Gloomy Chan meets up with eclectic Yoko and creates a folksy choir-like track.
The more eccentric aspects of Ono's tunes are brought home in Polyphonic Spree's mash-up of "You and I" which quickly descends into over-processed space-age noise. But, with an artist like Yoko Ono, more overall hits than misses can be considered a huge triumph. |
| Amy Wagner |
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