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Avg: 3.5 (6 ratings)
- Date Released: July 31, 2007
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: KOCH Records
An uplifting album of good ol’ messy right stuff from the Kinks’ “nice brother.”
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We Say...
He's 60, he's still recovering from the stroke he suffered in 2004, and Kinks lore portrays him as “the nice brother” in contrast to awkward cuss/genius Ray. So you want to like Fractured Mindz — his 10th solo album, counting live releases and compilations.
Well, happily, Dave has plenty to offer: sheer lust for life, decent songs and a range of venerable yet unashamed rock idioms. Although the recording seems somewhat DIY, its beatbox drum patterns unsuited to Davies’ gut-feeling ’60s approach, he brews a zestful assortment of psychedelic synthesiser swirls, beat-boom pop, tough R&B and the pre-heavy-metal guitar muscle that distinguished the Kinks’ early hits.
His themes take you back too. He just can't stop singing about freedom, be it spiritual ("This Is the Time") or, more politically, freedom from whatever “they” want to impose on “us” ("All About Me"). But Davies kind of knows this is standard hippy idealistic vagueness and there’s a twinkle of self-mockery about lines like “I believe in rock & roll/ I believe in my immortal soul/ And they can keep their mind control.” Plainly, he’s just glad to be alive and rockin’ out, an uplifting album of good ol' messy right stuff. -
They Say...
Since he was the legendary wildman of the Kinks -- the man responsible for their proto-heavy metal guitars, the battling brother of Ray -- it's been easy to pigeonhole Dave Davies as just a hard rocker but anybody who paid close attention to his solo work would know that he has a spiritual, even mystical, dimension to his music. It should come as little surprise that Fractured Mindz, his first album since his 2004 stroke, emphasizes this spiritual side; brushes with mortality tend to bring that out in an artist. But even if this is filled with references to his stroke -- whether it's in the very title of the album, the determination of "Remember Who You Are" or the meditative "The Blessing" -- Fractured Mindz doesn't exist entirely within the scope of Davies' mind. He has songs that strike out against the state of the world today, such as "Free Me," which help give this album an air of defiance that's kind of inspiring. Also inspiring is the very fact that Davies -- who initially couldn't play and had trouble singing -- made this album through some considerable difficulty and that it isn't an album that's resting on his laurels. He's attempting to carve out new territory through songs like "The Blessing," and he's updating the Kinks bluesy garage rock effectively with "Come to the River," so there's a lot going on here that's worth exploring. Unfortunately, much of this is married to a rigid drum machine and outdated synthesizers that give Fractured Mindz a curious out-of-phase feel, as if it was resurrected from 1986. This may make the album a little bit hard on the ears at times, but it's hard to blame Davies for relying on such out-of-date synthesized instruments -- they were the homemade tools that helped him construct this album, so even if they give the record a bit of a stiffness, it's easy to admire his doggedness and ambition on this worthy, if flawed, album.
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| 01. |  |
This Is The Time |
6:45 |
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| 02. | |
Free Me |
4:17 |
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| 03. | |
All About Me |
3:07 |
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| 04. | |
Come To The River |
4:32 |
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| 05. | |
Giving |
4:19 |
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| 06. | |
Remember Who You Are |
3:52 |
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| 07. | |
The Waiting Hours |
3:20 |
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| 08. | |
Rock Siva |
7:21 |
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| 09. | |
The Blessing |
4:01 |
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| 10. | |
Fractured Mindz |
7:17 |
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| 11. | |
God In My Brain |
5:31 |
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11 Total Tracks, 54:22 Total Length
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