Sunday Music: Desire Walks On, Heart
Mar. 17th, 2013 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowAlbum Title: Desire Walks On
Why I Bought It: I had previously bought, and greatly enjoyed, their Bad Animals album, so I bought this one when I ran across it.
What I Like (Prophetic): "Ring Them Bells". Prophetic in the old sense: not predicting the future, but challenging the present. It starts with "Ring them bells, ye heathen, from the city that dreams...", and works through a litany of saints as it denounces various evils.
What I Like (Longing): "Back to Avalon". A song of leavetaking, of going back to a place where love is and demons are not: "And the phoenix flies, straight and high, back to Avalon..."
What I Like (Hopeful): "Anything Is Possible". A love song, speaking of a rough patch but with the certainty of overcoming it.
What I Don't Like (Loud): "Rage". I have no idea what the point of this song is, other than a lot of screaming. Dishonorable Mention: "Black on Black", which is at least tinctured with some pop anthropology.
Overall: What attracts me to Heart is, mostly, the joyous energy of their music, even when they sing about pain (cf. "Alone", on Bad Animals), and this album has plenty of that. Songs of confusion ("My Crazy Head"), of fulfillment ("The Woman in Me"), of distrust ("Voodoo Doll"), of desire ("In Walks the Night") - lots of excitement there.
Why I Bought It: I had previously bought, and greatly enjoyed, their Bad Animals album, so I bought this one when I ran across it.
What I Like (Prophetic): "Ring Them Bells". Prophetic in the old sense: not predicting the future, but challenging the present. It starts with "Ring them bells, ye heathen, from the city that dreams...", and works through a litany of saints as it denounces various evils.
What I Like (Longing): "Back to Avalon". A song of leavetaking, of going back to a place where love is and demons are not: "And the phoenix flies, straight and high, back to Avalon..."
What I Like (Hopeful): "Anything Is Possible". A love song, speaking of a rough patch but with the certainty of overcoming it.
What I Don't Like (Loud): "Rage". I have no idea what the point of this song is, other than a lot of screaming. Dishonorable Mention: "Black on Black", which is at least tinctured with some pop anthropology.
Overall: What attracts me to Heart is, mostly, the joyous energy of their music, even when they sing about pain (cf. "Alone", on Bad Animals), and this album has plenty of that. Songs of confusion ("My Crazy Head"), of fulfillment ("The Woman in Me"), of distrust ("Voodoo Doll"), of desire ("In Walks the Night") - lots of excitement there.
