As 16 Horspower's singer, David Eugene Edwards often caught the ear through his Nick Cave-like "psycho preacher" 's way of singing. Yet on this album, a solo record made up as a side-project, Edwards also assumes the dilapidated crooner style, typical of Dead Can Dance's frontman Brendan Perry, along with Echo and the Bunnymen's boss Ian Mc Culloch.

Written, produced and mostly arranged by Edwards, Woven Hand is, by the way, not that remote from Dead Can Dance's songs: an impressive sensory odyssey gathering all kinds of instruments (electric guitars, balalaikas, harps), conferring a subtle, attractive style on the album.

Newcomers will certainly get more easily into the prickly cover of Bill Withers' classic Ain't no Sunshine. But the album's genuine interest lies more in the original songs, from the strange, Syd Barrett-like My Russia to the cheerful Glass Eye, tinted with hillbilly, that sounds as if Beck had turned into a banjo strummer

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