From: Heather Space, heatherspace@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: AENT review [long] [ spoilers]
Date: 2/2/2002 10:55:20 PM
To: gregh@mpinet.net



Greg wrote:
>What I like about Radiance is that it is a bit of a parable. I can imagine 
>Steve singing this bedside to his daughters. It has the fairy tale quality 
>of It's No Reason, but it's a fairy tale us adults can listen to and not 
>feel guilty about
>...because it's about us.

YES. Exactly. Thank you, Greg, you took the words right out of my mouth. In 
fact, there is a lullaby-ish quality that permeates the album in many spots 
-- lullaby may not be the best word, but it's the closest I can come up with 
to define the atmosphere of it. Perhaps "fairy tale" is the best phrasing 
after all. But the best fairy tales are dark and adult in nature anyway, 
with a hidden meaning tucked underneath. You have to really listen/dig for 
it, you know? It's like panning for gold. The album reminds me a lot of The 
Blurred Crusade in this respect, though the instrumentation is definitely 
more in the P=A vein.

Heather, who currently can't get over the guitar in the title track, god 
help me.

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