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Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home
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Price: $10.99
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0658457002223
Label: Young God Records
Manufacturer: Young God Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Young God Records
Release Date: 2003-03-04
Studio: Young God Records
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Customer reviews of Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home
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Summary: close, but no cigar
Comment: M. Gira has not even come close to being a complete thought since those early years. Every release, on the surface seems interesting, but they all ultimately are missing something vital, something that gives them a life. Its very hard to describe. It always seems as though I am listening to a demo or a work in progress. This latest project "Angels" seem to take itself so seriously in all the strangest ways, it is almost a bit insulting to be honest. I have heard all of these melodies before, but now I am supposed to take them more seriously because M. Gira has decided to sing over them. If you like "Angels" it just seems like there are other bands/people doing this whole mood/sound better and with more honesty. To see people comparing Gira to Tom Waits or Cohen is a bit disturbing to me, because I just don't think Gira's music brings the same class of writing and depth. Anyway, If your a fan, your a fan, and probably not to interested in hearing this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Prepare to be surprised!
Comment: Wow. You never know where this album is going to take you. From the opening track it's a journey into a unique and unorthodox musical vision. Taking cues from Great Annihilator-era Swans it's much more than a incremental step in development - this album's a quantum leap in terms of depth and complexity. At times it brings to mind Firewater - if Firewater had lived lives of heroin addiction, pain and misery. Such comparisons are only fleeting though; this album has a sound all of its own. Turn it up loud and go with it...and look forward indeed to hearing what a choir at an insane asylum might sound like on track 7 :)
A true original. I love it, when's the next one?!
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Summary: One of last year's best...
Comment: Rarely does a musical piece deliver the same structure, mood and aftereffects that an abstract motion picture does. One of these extraordidnary albums is Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home by the Angels of Light, the third full-length album from ex-Swans vocalist and Brooklyn based label, Young God Records owner, Michael Gira. At the end of the album, like an elusive film, the listener is left slightly disoriented, yet yearning for more. Once can only wonder why such classic film-noir music has yet to be featured on the soundtracks to surreal films by eccentric directors everywhere.
The album's often menacing tone, is due to the resonant orchestral instrumentation, which provides an almost majestic, enduring eminence in the ways of a more mature Black Heart Procession.
Gira touches on such subjects as betrayal, the loss of love, death and all things dour. However, what at first appears to be simplistic, faint lyrics, with each line having no real connection to the former, when scrupulously examined, the actual message becomes clear. When these same morose lyrics are sung through Gira's murky, brooding voice, the dismal background music only aide in furthering his melancholy expressions.
When compared to previous Angels of Light albums, Everything Is Good Here/Please come Home continues in a similar fashion, however, there is a newfound maturity and passion that is much more prevalent. The great intensity of the album is what sets them far apart from similar bands like Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and New York's own gothic lounge-noir act, Piker Ryan's Folly.
Maybe Gira is just a troubled man rying to do his best living in a shallow, ominous world, or maybe he's an often un-recognized musical genius and true visionary. Either way Everything is Good HEre/Please Come Home is a benchmark album that will hopefully set the stage for future disenchanted musicians.
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Summary: I am not a goth
Comment: This new band by Michael Gira (ex-Swans) has been around for about three years now. With this album, Gira seems to have moved on from his dark past, by creating a new rock/folk hybrid. This time he has collaborated with numerous musicians such as Kid Congo Powers, Eszter Balint, and Devendra Banhart: a bunch of scenesters from New York and Germany. Gira has developed a palette that seems personal, new, and sensible. He deals with themes of childhood and growing up in songs like "Palisades" and "Rose of Los Angeles." It is most like some psychedelic records of the late 1960s, but sounds modern at the same time. His recent intimate live shows have been gathering great interest. (www.freewilliamsburg.com)
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Summary: Who Were The Swans
Comment: I think people can now stop mentioning the Swans when they speak of Angels of Light, for Gira has surpassed anything his former band has done with this album. Hauntingly beautiful and my favorite album of 2003.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Full Title - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home. The third installment from M. Gira's post-Swans band - quiet, loud, delicate and insane. Digipak. Young God. 2003.
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