Word: angelã
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...robes, behind a humanoid angel arcing toward heaven, fills the left and center of the picture. A stone lion sits off to the side; eagles guard above. In the sky to the right, though, floats a meditative woman standing against a tree, her chin filling the ground between the angel??s head and shoulders...
...angel??s absence, Marisol mingles with a string of strange characters that both shield and threaten her in this destitute landscape, and generally serve to introduce the gamut of this staged world’s social ills, which Rivera suggests, mirror our own. But in his attempt to tackle both epic, existential themes and a countless number of particular social evils, Rivera sacrifices coherent plot structure and consistently well-developed characters...
Window pulls further inwards than even the oft-claustrophobic Mezzanine. The music throughout is just as ominous, but never breaks into the sense of open confrontation and menace that gave songs like “Angel?? such bite. The album threatens without giving away anything, in part because of its resolutely synthetic approach. Even vocalist Horace Andy is distorted until he sounds something like a keyboard effect...
...crunchy sound and lack of inhibition that characterized Root’s earlier work. With the bluegrass-influenced “Blue Diamonds,” Glabicki’s lyrics abandon the intriguing lyrical obscurity of earlier songs. Composed as a “love song to an angel?? from a childhood memory of Glabicki’s, the deliberate and lucid lyrics lack the subtlety that made earlier songs so deliciously mysterious and exotic...