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发表于 2005-11-14 21:39
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In publishing, we are told, timing is everything. This has the ring of truth to it; certainly, Dan Brown would be living a very different life right now if The Da Vinci Code had been sent to the printers a century ago! Likewise, it's possible that Atheist Lovesongs to God arrived in the hands of a Christian-turned-agnostic at almost the precise point at which that momentous change took place. Or perhaps Jason Merritt is really as good as he seems -- right now, yesterday, and tomorrow, regardless of who's listening. In any case, his spare, evocative country folk sound is captivating. Tense, ghostly, absorbing and creepy as hell, Whip's music will give you good reason to brood, even if you're not in the middle of a philosophical crisis.
Atheist Lovesongs to God, as a title, is an unsubtle hint at the issues over which Merritt -- who fronts like-sounding folk act Timesbold when he's feeling less reclusive -- wrings his hands throughout the disc. While Merritt has a predilection for cryptic metaphor, a sense of existential angst pervades his songs and communicates the concepts that prosaic turns of phrase often do not. He's at least as conflicted as his album title suggests, and it's driving him nuts.
提取码 2742730619515594 过期时间 2005-11-18 14:36
p.s: 以上5张专辑均转自51MPC. |
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