Barricades & Brickwalls (studio album) by Kasey Chambers

From paladisiac 12/11/2011 04:55

Australian pop country music. Opening track establishes her attitude -- "barricades & brickwalls won't keep me from you / you can tie me down on a railroad track; you can let that freight train looOOoose" and "I'll be damned if you're not my man before the sun goes down". That song, "not pretty enough", the spitfire of "crossfire" ("If you don't hate me you'll learn to") and the longing of "if I were you" ("If I were you / I would easily hold me and say / It's all gonna be OK") are the best tracks. Not much originality here in the lyrics or its 70s-country slant, but I liked how it sounded at the time (and still do). The final overly-religious track plus overly-social-commentary secret song could've both been cut.