Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers by The Twilight Singers

Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers, the first album from Greg Dulli's after-hours side project, came out on Columbia in 2000 with Dulli producing, and it took the long way round. He had started the Twilight Singers in 1997 while the Afghan Whigs were stalled, cutting demos at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans with Shawn Smith, Happy Chichester and producer-engineer Ryan Hadlock, and those tapes were dark and tense even by his standards. Columbia picked up the recordings but wanted a new Whigs record first, so the Twilight Singers had to wait their turn.

What finally came out is soul music with the blinds drawn, murmured and brooding and close to the bone. The Washington Post heard echoes of the divorce albums Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson made, even if it found Dulli's tunes less gripping. Once the Whigs were finished, this became his main outfit.

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