Delanuca
2006
El Camino Del Fuego
About This Album
As the title implies, Rasputina's fourth album, Frustration Plantation, is a loosely conceptual work that introduces Southern influences into the group's witchy chamber rock. Indeed, the band even went to the lengths of researching the album by referencing the Library of Congress' history of Southern song, and their daguerreotypes from that era, as well as visiting former plantations and dressing up in period costumes. The idea of mixing eerie, Deliverance-style Southern ambience with Rasputina's aesthetic is an inspired one, and it results in their strongest work to date. Frustration Plantation gets off to a strong start with the spooky, dulcimer-driven "Doomsday Averted," on which Melora Creager's voice echoes like she's singing in a swamp, and the folky torch song "Secret Message," which is possibly the album's prettiest moment. As stylized as these songs are, they still don't quite prepare the listener for the rest of Frustration Plantation, which plays the band's wit and theatricality to the hilt. Sometimes this approach stumbles a little, as on the rather slight "Possum of the Grotto" and "High on Life," but more often than not it works well, especially on the punky cover of one of the 1920s' sassiest songs, "If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,6,9,10 and 11)

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