Annie Lennox - Songs of Mass Destruction
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Music CD Cover Artist: Annie Lennox Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-10-02 Music Label: Arista Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Songs of Mass Destruction Album
Free Music Review: Emotional.
Hit: 4 Stars
Annie Lennox doesn't do light and fluffy. You either welcome the austerity of that three-octave voice - or run for the hills.
When last we heard from her, in 2003 when she released the album "Bare", she was recovering from her second divorce.
Beneath the seductively melodic surface, the rawness of her emotional state was documented in a desolate and often self-lacerating style.
Four years later, she is back with "Songs of Mass Destruction", a title hardly suggestive of joie de vivre.
Her fourth solo album is a wonderful brooding affair.
The new single "Dark Road" is ostensibly about a failed love affair - but also refers to our love-hate relationship with America; the gospel-tinged "Ghosts", a bruised lament.
But it's not all woe. Check out the dissonant "Womankind" ('Wish I had a lover who could turn this squalor into wine'), while the show stopper is "Sing" - a collaboration with 23 female superstars, including Madonna, Joss Stone, Dido, Shakira, Pink and..lo and behold! even Celine Dion, contributed - that is incandescent.
It is a feminist anthem inspired by Aids activists in South Africa, with all profits going to TAC (Treatment Action Campaign).
Annie Lennox's personal emotional territory is universal emotional territory.
There's nowhere else to be when that voice is singing.
"Songs of Mass Destruction" is a powerful piece of work, and it showcases a voice that has developed a depth and power that are unmatched in today's pop landscape.
The album turns out to be a fairly appropriate title for this collection of tunes. Like little cluster bombs, each of these tracks comes power-packed with a devastating emotional charge, with Lennox's crystal-clear vocals merely adding to the impact.
This is raw, beautiful and brutal stuff, wrapped up in soaring melodies and sweet harmony.