The Twilight Singers: Mathias Schneeberger (Fender Rhodes piano); Greg Dulli, Scott Ford (bass guitar); Jon Skibic, Bobby Macintyre.

Personnel: Jon Skibic (vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, percussion); Greg Dulli (vocals, guitar, dobro, melodica, piano, keyboards, drums); Bobby Macintyre (vocals, drums, percussion); Helen Storer, Mark Lanegan, Molly McGuire (vocals); Dave Hillis, Manuel Agnelli (guitar); Jesse Tobias (dobro); John Nooney (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Mathias Scheeberger (Fender Rhodes piano); Brian Young (drums, percussion); Joshua Blanchard (loops).

Additional personnel: Helen Storer (vocals); Manuel Agnelli (guitar); Michael Sullivan (bass guitar); Dave Hillis, John Nooney, Mark Lanegan, Molly McGuire, Joshua Blanchard, Jesse Tobias, Brian Young .

Audio Mixers: Manuel Agnelli; Dave Hillis; Joshua Blanchard; Rodrigo Obregon; Daniele Grasso; Smash And Dash; Angel Fernandez; Eric Weaver.

Photographer: Brooke Williams.

Unknown Contributor Role: Cesare Zappal….

Arranger: Greg Dulli.

How is it that this album is only arriving now? Greg Dulli has always been a smoke-eyed interpreter, the whispers of others' songs drifting through his own like ghosts in a cemetery. Nevertheless, She Loves You is his first proper covers album, performed with the aid of his Twilight Singers collective. The songs here often found their way into the group's tours for Blackberry Belle; this probably accounts for how much they resemble Twilight material, even as the original shape is maintained. She Loves You opens with the voices of three women. Dulli approaches Hope Sandoval's "Feeling of Gaze," Martina Topley-Bird's "Too Tough to Die," and especially Bj”rk's "Hyperballad" with the same measured, nearly sultry intensity. This is music made from black sheets of silk. Dulli sounds absolutely tortured on "Strange Fruit"; with Mark Lanegan growling dourly in the other speaker, the song becomes a clawing drunk of burning flesh and sublimity. The sunnier Mary J. Blige gem "Real Love" is guided by a genius blend of melancholy bassline and hopeful, keening guitar, while "A Love Supreme" and Marvin Gaye's "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)" are performed in a dusky, ecstatic suite format, Rhodes tingeing the ends of the lines and Jon Skibic's electric guitar tracing undulating wah-wah curves in the folds of the bed sheets. Yow, it's getting hot in here. There was never any doubt, but She Loves You proves it anyway -- Greg Dulli is our collective id. ~ Johnny Loftus

CMJ (p.8) - "SHE LOVES YOU finds the former Afghan Whig turning his singular persona upon an eclectic array of other artists..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Greg Dulli still sketches an alluring Venn diagram of love, sex and death....The 11 songs here seamlessly fit the man's doomed romantic worldview."