Actress and singer Alicia Witt performs "Consolation Prize" off her new album "Revisionary History".
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There must be another Alicia Witt who made her film debut as a grade-schooler in David Lynch’s Dune, had recurring roles on shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Cybill and Friday Night Lights, and nailed a juicy season-long star turn on Justified as a sharp defender forced to clean up her numbskulled trailer-trash brothers’ murderous messes. Because albums by actors turned singer-songwriters are supposed to be laughingstock vanity projects, and Witt’s new album Revisionary History is a piano-pop gem that sounds by turns like “Grey Seal”-era Elton John, an alt-universe Fiona Apple and a film-noir chanteuse notching her nights in cigarette burns on the fallboard.
Recorded in Nashville's RCA Studio A with producer Ben Folds playing Richard Perry to her Carly Simon, the record couches Witt’s aching, acerbic songs in settings ranging from lightly percussive hip-hop to a sonic featherbed befitting a ’70s troubadour — sometimes within the same song, as in the striking duet “Down” with T.O.N.E.-z. Her pristine vocals and immaculate enunciation stand out on torchy ballads like the swooning opener “Friend,” but the song most likely to make this a keeper is “I’m Not Ready for Christmas” — a deliciously nasty anti-yuletide lament that will have Grinches fist-pumping every F-bomb and gift-wrapped gripe.
