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''Coming Apart'' is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Body/Head, a guitar duo composed of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace. It was released on September 10, 2013 on Matador Records. Recorded in Easthampton, Massachusetts in late 2012, ''Coming Apart'' features experimental noise rock arrangements alongside largely feminist-themed lyrics. The album features loose re-workings of the traditional folk song "Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)", and "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" by Nina Simone. Upon its release, ''Coming Apart'' received favorable reviews from music critics. Gordon's vocals and the album's minimal production were praised by critics, and Nace's guitar techniques and the album's free structure drew comparisons to earlier releases by Sonic Youth—of whom Gordon was a co-founder and a former member. Body/Head embarked on a U.S. tour in support of its release and are due to tour Europe in late 2013. ==Composition== ''Coming Apart'' features 10 tracks, all of which feature original music composed by Kim Gordon and Bill Nace. Gordon wrote lyrics for seven of the album's songs and Nace contributed lyrics to one song, "Murderess." "Ain't" is based on the 1969 Nina Simone song "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" and feature lyrics written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni performed over Body/Head's own music. The album's penultimate track, "Black", is based on Patty Waters rendition of the traditional American folk song "Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)". Describing ''Coming Apart''s sound, ''The New York Times'' Ben Ratliff said "the music rests on root chords, drones, feedback and repeated patterns from two guitars." Gordon listed jazz music, and in particular John Coltrane, as influences on the songs' compositions, noting that the opening track "Abstract" includes a similar structure to the music on Coltrane's album ''Meditations'' (1965). Ratliff stated that much of Body/Head's music is "directly traceable to early Sonic Youth", of whom Gordon was a co-founder, vocalist, guitarist and bassist. Nace listed Sonic Youth's fourth studio album, ''Sister'' (1987), as an influence on his guitar techniques, which have been compared to Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The composition of the album's sound has been described as being "free of verse/chorus structures" and compared to Sonic Youth's earlier releases. After the album was recorded—much of it live, with minimal overdubs and no added percussion—at Sonelab in Easthampton, Massachusetts in December 2012,〔〔 the album's engineer Justin Pizzoferrato mixed Gordon's guitar to the left channel and Nace's guitar to the right channel of the final stereo mix.〔 Much of ''Coming Apart''s lyrics were largely improvised.〔 Critics have made connections between the album's lyrical themes on songs such as "Last Mistress" and Gordon's divorce from former bandmate and husband Thurston Moore in late 2011. Gordon "bleeds cathartically all over the record" with her lyrics leaving her "as emotionally naked as she could possibly be." ''Spin'' highlighted the feminist themes on ''Coming Apart'', explaining that much of the album "is about women's roles—their duty, their identity. Gordon sings of the murderess, the mistress, the actress, the 'good little housewife' … The songs are threaded with desperation and desire, detailing their service of and proximity to male power—both the possession and loss of it."〔 Gordon's vocals, which drew comparisons to Patti Smith, were produced with considerable amounts of echo and reverb "to use it as another instrument in itself." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coming Apart (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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