Room 29

"A collaboration [between Jarvis Cocker, the former Pulp frontman, and] Chilly Gonzalez, an electro musician with strong roots in classic pop, Room 29 is intimate cabaret - the kind of album that could be performed at a dinner theater, where the pianist runs the length of his keyboard as the vocalist murmurs poetry ... Room 29 is constructed as a tone poem, a collection of songs, poetry, and incidental music that's designed to be a hyper-reality - an intersection of the glamorous past of Hollywood and our arch modern sensibility, and it succeeds gloriously at that".

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"The ex-Pulp frontman and pianist check in at Hollywood's infamous Chateau Marmont for this beautifully bittersweet song cycle ... There's less glitz than strange half-lives lived between bouts of room service. Cocker and Gonzales aren't so mesmerised by Chateau lore (John Belushi overdosing, etc) as they are by the semi-famous marinating in glamorous desperation, the old-school Hollywood lifers ordering "ice cream as main course"".

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