Jill Tracy - Diabolical Streak

Label:

125 Records

Catalog#:

125-009

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

1999

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Lounge, Avantgarde

Tracklist

1	Evil Night Together	4:35	X
2	The Fine Art Of Poisoning	5:38
3	Pulling Your Insides Out	6:23	X
4	Extraordinary	6:28	X
5	The Proof	8:01	X
6	Just The Other Side Of Pain	7:24	X
7	You Leave Me Cold	3:52	X
8	Doomsday Serenade	4:26	X
9	Precursor #7 (For A Levitation)	0:32	X
10	Diabolical Streak	8:53	X

Credits

Artwork By [Concept, Art Direction] - Jill Tracy
Artwork By [Graphic Design] - Robert Cossello
Artwork By [Hair By] - Deena Davenport
Artwork By [Make-up By] - Phatima
Bassoon - Nadine Whitfield
Double Bass, Cello [Violoncello] - Alexander Kort
Drums, Percussion, Timpani - Eric Gebow
Engineer - Christian Jones
Grand Piano, Vocals - Jill Tracy
Lyrics By, Music By - Jill Tracy
Mastered By, Producer [Additional Production] - Jeremy Bloch , Sam Burbank
Other [Internet Liasons] - Jon Bradford , Ryan Silva
Other [Social Coordinator] - John Pliska
Performer - Malcontent Orchestra, The
Photography - Brian James
Producer - Christian Jones , Jill Tracy
Tambura [Yaili Tambour] - Eenor
Violin - Daniel Baer

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Mobius, San Francisco.
Mastering and additional production at Submarine Studios, San Francisco.

(C)+(P) MCMXCIX Jill Tracy
Manufactured and distributed by 125 Records.
Barcode: 7 14288 03732 9
Matrix: OASIS - ifpi 7712 - 2XM63<7021>JTRACY1

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Rated 2/5

Review by Aim023 Aug 29, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

Jill Tracy has generated a fair amount of praise from certain critics... after listening to this, I really have no idea why.

Wanting to explore the cabaret genre a little more than I had, I picked this cd up. It's good for a few laughs here and there, but it's nothing I can listen and get involved with by any measure. The music is standard-fare "gothic" cabaret (implementing the Malcontent Orchestra I believe) with "sultry", "sinister" female vocals and "eerie" lyrics that paint "morbid" scenes of "murder", "decadence" and "debauchery". The CD sounds, literally, a little too much like some kind of Tori Amos Halloween collection or something, and the dark sex/death-focused lyricism was done better by groups like Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds years ago.

If Jill Tracy had happened maybe in the 1920s or '30s when the cabaret thing was in full swing she might have become something other than just a pin-up, lower tier goth icon, which is what I'd say my impressions of her are just having listened to this album and read articles.