New Wave Detour
Alan Caylow | 07/14/1999
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I guess you gotta be in the mood. Alexandra Kramer's 4 songs sound like gregorian chants with a beat - spiritual, vague, and echoey. Robert Kidney's songs sound more like REM, but with lyrics that seem like to consturcted on the fly. Sometimes I am enchanted by this construction ("A Letter Back" in particular) but more often it seems boring. GP has done better."
This Ain't No Dead Horse
Alan Caylow | USA | 01/07/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"1989's "A Dead Horse," the fourth album from drummer Anton Fier's studio group The Golden Palominos, is an excellent album with very strong pop-rock of both the down-to-earth & the ethereal kind. Fier's two main collaborators this time out are singer-songwriters Robert Kidney (who handles the down-to-earth material) and Amanda Kramer (who sings the dreamier-sounding stuff), and they both do great, including Kidney's confident turns on "Wild River" and "Lucky," while Kramer (who sounds quite a bit like Natalie Merchant) works vocal wonders on such songs as "Shattered Image" and the stunningly beautiful "Darklands." Great songs and performances make "A Dead Horse" a solid offering from the ever-changing Golden Palominos."