There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You

The Palace Brothers includes: Will Oldham (vocals). In the course of a few short years in the mid-'90s, singer-songwriter Will Oldham built up an entire mythological universe around his ever-changing Palace concept. The group was alternately known as Palace Brothers, Palace Music, Palace Songs, etc., and featured a constantly shifting cast of characters, but Oldham's singularly twisted country-folk vision remained constant throughout. The band's debut remains one of its strongest albums. Over ramshackle accompaniment that comes off like a bluegrass band on acid, Oldham sings of sin, family, death, drunkenness and incest, among other down-home themes, in a cracked, emotive Appalachian tenor. His fractured portrait of rural America's dark underbelly as heard on THERE IS NO ONE remains one of the most affecting and disturbing visions in the indie-rock/lo-fi canon. If Neil Young had grown up during the Reagan years...