Jenkins' voice is a boyishly handsome tenor instrument that unassumingly evokes an almost preternatural sense of unbearable loss. Black Heart Procession is inviting you to take an extended look at stuff you usually spend a lot of energy avoiding. This is not an easy CD to listen to. Its pitch-black mood, rather like Lou Reed's Berlin, is infectious. But it's really not like Berlin at all, or anything else you've heard.
Great records are like that too.
Ian Grey 's work has been published in Time Out, Icon, Fangoria and many other periodicals. He is currently at work on an epic novel dealing with sex, pop music, family and mass murder, based on two lines from a mediocre Depeche Mode song. Mr. Grey likes to think that he will be among the very first to do this.