| Destination Anywhere | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Label | Shanachie | |||
| Producer | Tim Patalan | |||
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Destination Anywhere is an album by the American musician Brenda Kahn, released in 1996. [1] [2] The album was set for an early 1995 ship date, but Kahn was dropped from Chaos/Columbia Records two weeks prior to its scheduled release. [3] [4] "Reconcile" was the intended first single. [5] Kahn supported the album with a North American tour. [6]
Destination Anywhere was produced by Tim Patalan. [7] Kahn started recording the album at the end of 1994; she decided to abandon the folk direction of her previous album in favor of a full band sound. [1] [8] Due to record label restructuring, Destination Anywhere was not licensed to Shanachie Records until 1996, with additional recording in Detroit. [1] [9] Jeff Buckley played guitar and sang on "Faith Salons"; the demo, cowritten by the pair, was recorded with Kahn in a Brooklyn loft. [10] [11] [12]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [13] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |  [7] |
| The Republican | [14] |
The Wisconsin State Journal wrote that "great songs like 'Spoon' allow Kahn to rock out like a less melodramatic Concrete Blonde, but the album suffers when Kahn indulges her tendency toward heavy-handed poetry." [15] The Republican determined that, "at times a thrashing punk rocker and at other times an enticing beat poet, Brenda Kahn's a pretty complicated character, somewhat reminiscent of Patti Smith." [14] The Chicago Sun-Times stated: "Kahn's gritty rock songs inhabit a world of desperation and disillusion. But there also is salvation in each story." [16]
The Columbus Dispatch opined that "Destination Anywhere sounded so much like Patti Smith's Horses that we were pining for the original... After a blazing start, Kahn's images weren't as compelling as Smith's, yet were still worth hearing." [17] The SouthtownStar concluded that "Kahn sounds a bit rougher, more blue collar bar performer than vegetarian restaurant folkie." [18] The Austin Chronicle noted that "Kahn discovered the rare middle ground between singer-songwriter fare and punk aesthetics." [2]
AllMusic wrote: "The bitter tone of the album might not settle well with some listeners, but the steady intensity of the music and Brenda Kahn's great vocal delivery make this album a minor masterpiece." [13]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Reconcile" | |
| 2. | "Terrorist" | |
| 3. | "Lie" | |
| 4. | "Spoon" | |
| 5. | "Faith Salons" | |
| 6. | "Yellow Sun" | |
| 7. | "Too Far Gone" | |
| 8. | "Night" | |
| 9. | "No Cure" | |
| 10. | "Omaha" |
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