This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“You wanna go for a ride?” asks Greg Dulli on Blackberry Belle, the second album from his Twilight Singers.
As anyone familiar with the seductive soul man and erstwhile Afghan Whigs fronter knows, he’s not talking about a Sunday drive. Indeed, this 11-song come-on is more like a Saturday night joyride with a guy who’s gonna get you high, take you out to the edge of town and put the moves on you. Eschewing the sampled loops and sinister funk of the Singers’ 2000 debut for a rockier, more soulful sound, Dulli comes off like a cross between Prince and Leonard Cohen. While he assumes his typically languid posture and whispers huskily in your ear, the band ooze sensual slow-motion grooves and fashion intoxicating sonic cocktails that evolve from druggy sonic smoke rings into walls of woozy noise. All that’s left for you to do is reach down between your legs and ease the seat back.
