This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Mekons vocalist Sally Timms has the voice of an angel and the heart of a cowgirl. Both of them come out to play on Twilight Laments, her first solo album in years and a disc that truly proves that even cowgirls get the blues.
On these 10 twisted lullabies about sad milkmen, dark suns and Dr. Strangelove, Timms’ lovely, cotton-candy voice sweetens her melancholy melodies like a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down. For her part, Miss Sally gets help from fellow Chicagoans like Mekons mate Jon Langford, Robbie Fulks, violinist Andrew Bird and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who all lend a pen, a pluck, or a production hand to the cause. Not that she needs it; all by her lonesome, she spins these eccentric ditties with an easy grace and hypnotizing beauty that’ll smooth your troubled brow and sweetly send you off to dreamland.
