Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 10th, 2000
Grant-Lee Phillips, "Ladies Love Oracle," (Magnetic Field Recordings)
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On their first three albums, Grant Lee Buffalo produced inventive guitar rock steeped in rustic-folk and Southern gothic - part R.E.M., part Flannery O'Connor.
But the band's last release, 1998's "Jubilee," found them eschewing their eccentricity and moving toward a more traditional alt-rock sound. Gone were the mandolin and dobro; in were the standard thrashing guitars, crashing drums and radio-friendly singles such as "Truly, Truly."
With that album's commercial failure, band leader Grant-Lee Phillips has gone ba...
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