Ike Reilly Assassination Releases Double Album 'Junkie Faithful' & 'Sparkle In The Finish'

Not too long ago we talked about the new record by Ike Reilly released early April 2008. (click here to view previous entry)

On May 12, Ike Reilly and his rocking band Ike Reilly Assassination will release a joint album repackaging two of their previous releases - 2004's Sparkle In The Finish and 2005's Junkie Faithful compiled as one 2-disc album released under Rock Ridge Music.

Consisting of 27 dazzling groovy tracks equipped with premium contemporary folk blues rock materials, significantly user-friendly if you're a big fan of Bob Dylan and his accomplices in the folk era.

A grand entrance with clean rhythm guitar strums supported by several monumental riffs building up the sparks getting ready for a flamboyant walkthrough, as the moment awaits Reilly flicked his fingers and boldly lay his extraordinary dandy vocals uttering words from a brilliant mind, and then it comes the time everybody starts chipping in a little bit here and there to create one whole freaking good song, that's when the party begins.

Some of the favorable tracks from this album include I Don't Want What You Got, Holiday In New York, The Boat Song, Ex-Americans, The Mixture, God And Money, Heroin, Everything Is Gonna Be Alright and Junkie Faithful.

To further discover the individuality of this joint album, kindly refer to the press release below.

“Sparkle In The Finish” is laced with punk-blues, classic and garage rock, and wrapped up in both lo-fi and contemporary production. The songs on “Sparkle” look into Reilly’s dark and sexy world of bank robbers, cross dressers, mythical garage bands, the rich, the dead, and the things that often drive them – lust, pills and booze. All seen from the eyes of a wiseass everyman drifting through modern America, Reilly’s songs are compelling, often times hilarious, and wholly original. Songs like “I Don’t Want What You Got (Goin’On),” “It’s All Right to Die,” “Whatever Happened To The Girl In Me?,” “Waitin’ For Daddy,” “The Boat Song (We’re Getting Loaded)” and “The Ballad Of The Choir Boy Bank Robber” are fascinating observations about simple events and conversations, about death and redemption, about excess and addiction, all infused with memorable melodies and a tough lyrical cadence.

“Junkie Faithful” is a collection of songs that clearly establishes Reilly as one of America’s best and prolific contemporary songwriters. The Washington Post called Reilly a gifted performer and lyricist, and on “Junkie Faithful” he proves that and more. While the album rocks and rolls, punks and folks, pops and proclaims, the classic rock ballads on this collection – “God & Money,” “Heroin,” “The Mixture,” “The Edge of the Universe Café,” and “Devil’s Valentine” – hit a new level of emotion that Reilly had only grazed before. Taking vignettes of personal isolation (like in “22 Hours of Darkness”) or failure (as in the ultimate apology song, “I Will Let You Down”), or fabricating wild delusions of grandeur (in the sinister pop of “Suffer For The Trust”), Reilly creates songs with a universality that he, or anybody else for that matter, rarely has achieved on other recordings.

This is Ike Reilly performing Garbage Day in Italy.