Word: connors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musician's emergent concern for broken hearts, but the emotionalism evident on Us usually works. "You lie there with your eyes half-closed/ Like there's no one there at all/ There's a tension pulling on your face/ Come on, come talk to me," Gabriel laments. Sinead O'Connor adds a fantastic background vocal...
...Unfortunately, she is not as successful with "Black Coffee," a blues/jazz lament. Lines like "Woman's born to weep and fret/ To stay at home and tend her oven/And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarrettes" are delivered without irony, which is as shame since O'Connor doesn't believe this song and it shows...
...Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" is definitely the weak link on this album because O'Connor's vocals get lost in the screaming trumpets of Doug Katsaros' neo-bop arrangement...
...When O'Connor's vocals get a little thin, the listener's familiarity with some of these tracks is the magic ingredient that keeps the musical souffle from falling. For example, in "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," her approach is almost timid. She floats over the notes instead of taking them by the throat in her usual manner. But hey, this is Evita we're talking about. Everyone knows Evita (there's a picture of Andrew Lloyd Weber in the dictionary next to "cultural literacy"). And it's still Sinead! "I Want to Be Loved By You" contains...
...Connor even talks up a little sermon at the end of the album about death, pain, crucifixion and the Holy Roman Empire. But the speech is reassuring--it's nice to know that she didn't have a complete personality transplant for this project. She's still subversive, trumpets, string section and all, which in its own way is quite an accomplishment...