How We Found Ourselves...Everywhere!

Album review

Only nine months after returning to the studio to cut their powerful record How Did I Find Myself Here? , The Dream Syndicate embarked on a live tour. Steve Wynn's band, even if it was born more than 35 years ago, only has five studio albums to its credit and three live albums, four including this one. The interest from their followers is huge, but a bit limited by the size of the band’s archive. And How We Found Ourselves... Everywhere! is no exception. Limited because the repertoire is very well known. But exciting all the same because the group that is now composed of fifty-year-olds offers here versions that haven’t been revisited in a long time. We find rather animated, nimble reworks of their classics When You Smile, John Coltrane Stereo Blues and The Medicine Show. So as to select only the cream of the crop, Wynn opted for a counterfeit live album, each of the six tracks coming from a different concert... The Dream Syndicate, spearhead of the 80's Paisley Underground scene, originally mixed the influences of The Velvet Underground, Television and Crazy Horse's Neil Young. A DNA that remains intact even if novices will be advised to revisit their first two records, The Days Of Wine And Roses (1982) and Medicine Show (1984). © Marc Zisman/Qobuz