Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang
The Wonder Show Of The World

THE REVIEW

Beautiful enough to bring tears, cloaked in the melancholy of a rural landscape.

Listening to "The Wonder Show of the World" feels like resting in the shade of an oak tree, thinking about those happy moments that will never return, and the realization that there will be others only sounds like a token comfort, like a hope that is almost frightening.

Will Oldham thus marks his annual release, collaborating with the American group "The Cairo Gang". In 2010, “Bonnie” releases an album that features all the characteristics of post-I See A Darkness works: music played with acoustic instruments, enlivened by a meditative melancholy but never excessively sad, with the hope of salvation peeking through every note, so present that it almost feels touchable, hidden between Will's voice and the few instruments that accompany him, drawing a minimal and sparse melody that stands out against the silence, on a magnificent sense of peace.

Forty-eight minutes to savor in one breath, in solitude or in the company of a special person, to live new happy moments that will immediately go and settle in the collection of memories, ready to be dusted off under the branches of an oak tree.