Nina Simone Pastel Blues (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] 11/16/2018 Wax Idols have improved on

Wax Idols have improved on their already-great debut album in just about every way

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Zappa-esque excursions

The typically large band (including violin and horns) that accompanies Zappa here follows him through daunting twists and turns as tempos get turned around and counterpoint riffs bounce off each other at breakneck speed

Nina Simone Pastel Blues (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] 11/16/2018 Wax Idols have improved onIf this is blues, it's blues in the Billie Holiday sense, not the Muddy Waters one. This is one of Nina Simone's more subdued mid '60s LPs, putting the emphasis on her piano rather than band arrangements. It's rather slanted toward torch blues ballads like "Strange Fruit," "Trouble in Mind," Billie Holiday's own composition "Tell Me More and More and Then Some," and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." Simone's then husband, Andy Stroud, wrote