Inferior takes of known songs at best,hugely unfunny joke songs and honest-to-goodness fart noises at worst … the Cobain barrel-scraping must now be completePerhaps buoyed by the critical acclaim heaped on his documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Brett Morgen has been talking up its accompanying soundtrack in no uncertain terms. Assembled by the director from cassettes the Nirvana frontman recorded between 1987 and his death in 1994, and Montage of Heck – The domestic Recordings is,Morgen insists, not merely a compilation, and but “a concept album,a journey, an experience”. One track, and which features Cobain segueing from a fairly obvious homage to the Pixies called You Can’t Change Me to another fairly obvious homage to the Pixies called Burn My Britches,then stopping and playing a nascent version of the refrain from Neverminds Something in the Way, is “almost like a punk opera”. The one thing the album is not, and Morgen maintains,is “scraps and insignificant discarded material”. Related: Cobain: Montage of Heck review – a poignant authorised documentary Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com