Breach

Performer: The Wallflowers
Artist: Elvis Costello; Jon Brion; Frank Black; Mitchell Froom; Lenny Castro; Greg Leisz; Gary Loris; Gary Louris; Mike Campbell
Engineer: Femio Hernandez; Howard Willing; Mauricio Iragorri; Kevin Dean; Ok Hee Kim
Producer: Michael Penn; Andrew Slater
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: The Wallflowers: Jakob Dylan (vocals, guitar); Michael Ward (guitar, background vocals); Rami Jaffee (keyboards, vibraphone, background vocals); Greg Richling (bass, percussion, background vocals); Mario Calire (drums). Additional personnel includes: Elvis Costello, Jon Brion, Frank Black, Mitchell Froom, Lenny Castro, Greg Leisz, Gary Louris, Mike Campbell. Recorded at Sunset Sound and Sound Factory, Hollywood, California; Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California; Sound Inn, Tokyo, Japan. BREACH limited edition contains a bonus CD. The Wallflowers: Jakob Dylan (vocals, guitar); Michael Ward (guitar, background vocals); Rami Jaffee (keyboards, vibraphone, background vocals); Greg Richling (bass, percussion, background vocals); Mario Calire (drums). Additional personnel includes: Elvis Costello, Jon Brion, Frank Black, Mitchell Froom, Lenny Castro, Greg Leisz, Gary Loris, Mike Campbell. Recorded at Sunset Sound and Sound Factory, Hollywood, California; Village Recorders, Los Angeles, California; Sound Inn, Tokyo, Japan. Personnel: Jakob Dylan (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Michael Ward (guitar, background vocals); Karie Prescott, Joel Derouin, Suzie Katayama, Michele Richards (strings); Greg Adams, Sal Cracchiolo, Ken Kugler (horns); Rami Jaffee (keyboards, vibraphone, background vocals); Matt Chamberlain, Mario Calire (drums); Greg Richling (percussion, background vocals); Gary Louris, Christopher Penn, Michael Penn, Frank Black , Elvis Costello, Buddy Judge (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Tom Lord-Alge. Recording information: Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA; Sound Inn, Tokyo, Japan; Sunset Sound, CA, Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA; Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA. Photographer: Christophe Rihet. After the multi-platinum and Grammy-winning success of 1996's BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE, Jakob Dylan finally got out from under the heavy mantle of his famous father's legacy and started a legacy of his own. For his millennial follow-up, the younger Dylan continued down the path of rich lyricism and well-crafted pop songs with help from the production team of Andrew Slater (Fiona Apple/Macy Gray) and singer-songwriter Michael Penn. Despite all his success and acclaim, Dylan comes off as more the hard-edged realist than bright-eyed optimist. Song topics draw from the sour experiences of life and a quest for higher meaning, manifested in numbers like the enigmatic and weary seeker-of-truth ode "I've Been Delivered," and the message of regret that is "Some Flowers Bloom Dead." Famous friends also pop up along the way to lend a hand, among the most notable being Elvis Costello, who helps out on the rollicking break-up song "Murder 101" and Frank Black, whose harmonies help shape "Letters From the Wasteland," a moody, desolate song of abandonment. Adding a nice counter-balancing coda to the slight disillusionment coloring BREACH is "Babybird," a sweet-sounding hidden track that reverberates with a music-box melody throughout. After the multi-platinum and Grammy-winning success of 1996's BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE, Jakob Dylan finally got out from under the heavy mantle of his famous father's legacy and started a legacy of his own. For his millennial follow-up, the younger Dylan continued down the path of rich lyricism and well-crafted pop songs with help from the production team of Andrew Slater (Fiona Apple/Macy Gray) and singer-songwriter Michael Penn. Despite all his success and acclaim, Dylan comes off as more the hard-edged realist than bright-eyed optimist. Song topics draw from the sour experiences of life and a quest for higher meaning, manifested in numbers like the enigmatic and weary seeker-of-truth ode "I've Been Delivered," and the message of regret that is "Some Flowers Bloom Dead." Famous friends also pop up along the way to lend a hand, among the most notable being Elvis Costello, who helps out on the rollicking break-up song "Murder 101" and Frank Black, whose harmonies help shape "Letters From the Wasteland," a moody, desolate song of abandonment. Adding a nice counter-balancing coda to the slight disillusionment coloring BREACH is "Babybird," a sweet-sounding hidden track that reverberates with a music-box melody throughout.

Rolling Stone (10/26/00, p.111) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Dylan has grown as a singer....The songs are incandescent enough to jump out at you on the radio, yet are steeped in a type of introspective inquiry that was once integral to rock & roll..." Q (11/00, p.119) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Generic, but very nicely done....its 10 songs possess the requisite authorative air and there are some good, strong, alt.country-type choruses too..." CMJ (1/08/01, p.46) - Included in CMJ's "Year's Best Triple A Albums" from 2000. CMJ (10/00, p.58) - "...A respectable follow-up to BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE....there are plenty of comfortably sung and strummed numbers that get the job done..." CMJ (10/00, p.58) - "...A respectable follow-up to BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE....there are plenty of comfortably sung and strummed numbers that get the job done..."

Growing up in the shadow of Bob Dylan would be too much for many, let alone trying to make it in the same field as the legendary troubadour. But Bob's son Jakob Dylan succeeded on his own terms when his band the Wallflowers hit it big with their own brand of roots rock in the 1990s and 2000s. Not ashamed of their admiration for Bob, Neil Young, or the Band, the Wallflowers became one of the genre's biggest acts by the turn of the century.

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