Interesting song choices, but some bad mixingby Anonymous

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August 27, 2004: Flashing back to the movie "Beautiful Girls", I remembered that one of the most gratifying moments of the film was the club scene during which I heard Dulli and Co belting out "Can't Get Enough of Your Love". There was that sweaty, sultry and sleazy feel to that cover that I had grown to know so well with Afghan Whigs, and it enhanced an already decent song with updated spirit and spunk. It was with this expectation that I went into first listening to "She Loves You" by the Twilight Singers," and to a certain extent, that may have been unfair. Although the album has grown on me, it lacks the swagger and bile of not only the Afghan Whigs albums, but even of the muted intensity of the last Twilight album, Blackberry Belle. The growl to Dulli's voice is instead replaced with attempts to sing that almost sound like someone said to a drunk Mr. Dulli "Hey Greg, it's Karaoke Night" and hit record at a local bar. With the exception of a few select songs, such as the already released "Black is the Color...", most of the songs are mixed and produced in a way that accenuates the weaknesses of the album (the elevated volume on Dulli's most out of tune singing on "What Makes You Think You're the One") while it mutes the strengths (Difficult to hear any of the singing on "A Love Supreme"). Despite these flaws, in some ways this album has grown on me as I have listened to it more, and I must commend the band on taking chances with music that seems out of their genre. However, this is a band that so obviously excells in one area, namely the sultry R&B riddled rock that it has produced over the years, that by comparision the rest is disappointing. Maybe I'm in the minority on this, but I would love to see a cover album that only featured Motown Type songs, as this is where the band excels. While I recommend this album, it is only to those who are hardcore Dulli fans, and even to them with some reservations.