Angles of Light “The Angels of Light Sing ‘Other People’” [Young God Records]

Just like Tom Waits, ex-SWANS frontman, Michael Gira, has not only matured with age but has increasingly grown as an artist in the latter part of his career. This is Gira’s fourth album with the Angels of Light and a welcomed expansion into more delicate country-folk tinged indie music. There is an omnipresent lamenting associated with Angels of Light, a kind of introspective heavy spirited gloominess that encompasses with ethereal splendor. Genuine emotion and quiet repose are prominent with instants of lively rejoice occasionally filtering through. There’s such a spellbinding organic sound on this record. Acoustic nylon string & slide steel guitars, fragile piano, violins & cellos, sparse percussion, spine tingling tortured moans and groans, yelps, drawn out harmony, and Gira’s breathy baritone are intelligently and bewitchingly combined, creating a wonderful extrasensory escape from a weary world. ‘Guy Montag
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