SINEAD’S CHRISTIAN GAME IS….
IMMENSE!!
Christian Rock just got itself exalted.
For all the craven Calvinism of early U2.
For the sainted shimmer of Patti Smith and the apostasy of DylAn or mystic Christian wonder of Van Morrison.
No one lass or laddie has gone as far out and wildly cutting to the core as does Ms Sinead O’connor on her new album.
Theology.
> IF I Had A Vineyard is an Irish folk soul gospel classic of Astral
> Weeks standard a wild light out for unchartered territory of the Biblical derived soul song.
The lady has had the most rivetting journey in public
> of any star from her time or place.
Tearing pictures up of the Pope. J’accuse on the U2 massive, busting Shane MacGowan (for his own good), hanging out with Dylan Morrison Kristofferson, PRINCE. A heavyweight talent and natural original.
Nothing Compares to etc.
.Joining the ministry, leaving the ministry, smoking pot and praising Jah.
All she ever wanted to do, she’s said, with this new album “was make something beautiful”
Terribly beautiful, beautifully terror filled - her telegrammatic diction and her savouring of the words (non) fiction chills chafes - to accent the graphically Middle East locations newsworthy relevance. On her original composition If I Had A Vineyard the whispered sensual and roaring imploring performance is of a live in the now feel of Annie Briggs or the late Karen Dalton. The song
eliding a shepherdess voice with pentient’s purpose.
The lady brings it all home deep down and familiar on Rivers Of Babylon, that song may have come close to comedy on ocassion but here its Marley-esque in form and wonder..
The spikiest and deepest record I’ve heard in an age…
