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Chelsea Diaries

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Dead Heart Bloom

 
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A deceptively mellow acoustic album that's too beautiful to be bitter

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    "Yeah, man, I'm fucked up inside," confesses Dead Heart Bloom frontman Boris Salsky on his 2007 solo album. His band has since added new members and forged a bigger sound, but it's his quiet intensity on this acoustic stunner that truly resonates. Chelsea Diaries finds Salsky sad and pissed, but he's no drama queen. He brandishes disillusionment with gorgeous folk-inflected swoons and sighs rather than shouts, bemoaning false prophets and broken promises with cool croons. On standout track "Chelsea Song # 2" his anger at an ex-flame is betrayed only by the insistent taps of an accompanying piano, providing a don't-look-back cadence that seems to defiantly whisper I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone…

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