Vinyl is arrived in France ! Beautiful piece (except one side have label not properly aligned and it makes you feel sick if you look a it spinning
).
And I have the lyrics ! Really love « the weather » beautifully said. Still have some trouble with the way some lyrics are (like never arriving, the line « is here between departure and arriving - but never arriving », I like the idea, but the repetition of the word « arriving » makes it sound silly to MY hears).
Hadn’t even noticed great disguise before, loves it now that I had read it !
Where I am, I understand it better now, but I still find the chorus a bit out of place, can’t really point out why, it feels silly to me.
Watch and learn, being 47 but with 8 & 5 years old kids, this one makes me shiver. As often with Mr Sullivan, he’s really not in mainstream thinking but in a few years everybody will say the same having the impression to be the first to point it out (Think « ballad » for instance, that is SO relevant today but looked doomsday prophecy from a lunatic to lots of people in the 80’s).
Maps (dammit, cello is really my favourite instrument !), Setting Sun and From Here are still my 3 favourites songs, the 3 goes so well together, amazing poetry there too.
Winter was already a dark album but perhaps this one is a step further in that direction.
For the vinyl, I needed to play it louder than my vinyl usually need (like the last The Ex, 27 passports). For the Ex it is because they have lightly pressed the record to be able to put more music on it. But it makes sometimes the end of sides hard to play because the needle will jump from time to time. I had the jumping needle problem on « From Here » song too, have to check if it’s my record or if it’s like 27 passports (and yes, my record player is a nice one, properly set, with a good needle
).
So this was my second opinion, with lyrics this time ! And I find the music still amazing, with a nice coherence to the whole.
