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Here they are, the connoisseurs/purists of the group who will turn up their noses at reading the review of the penultimate CD of the late Cocteau Twins!
Luckily, others will smile, appreciating this work as well (Fosca, I know you understand me!) and I would recommend it to those who don’t know it if: you like high-quality relaxing music, you seek a unique and emotional voice, engage in intellectual activities, roll around in bed alone or with company, lull to sleep and gift beautiful dreams, train vocal cords. "Know who you are at every age" dreamy and a bit sad finds Liz alternating a meditative song with a falsetto counterpoint while the guitars are effected to create small elastic whirlpools. "I cry, I cry...I've lost my self-identity...I don't want to grow up"... autobiographical references to Fraser in the midst of therapy. "Evangeline" serene and ethereal thanks to continuous guitar reverb and echoes creates a soft carpet for the voice that narrates a path of growth and healing. "Bluebird" lifts the mood, high-level easy-listening with fluid guitars played with slide and nightingale vocals in a praise of creativity and peculiarity of the male world... the woman is attracted but slightly wary, "Are you the right man for me? Will you be my friend or toxic? Will you betray my confidences?"
"Theft, and wandering around lost" returns to a slow, undulating, circular rhythm like the intimate and painful singing, perhaps the most emotional of the entire CD (addressing certain themes like rape and abuse is a courageous choice and perhaps impacts only a small portion of listeners..."words are important"...). "Oil of Angels" another evanescent and ethereal ballad. "Squeez-wax" is added to the numerous maternal tributes... "i fiji so' piezzi 'e core!" flows carefree and light on beautiful vocalizations and trembling guitars and double voices adulating the daughter ("no threats, no fights, Lucy, Lucy"). "My truth" slowed by electronic drums, distorted guitars with tremolo and a graceful xylophone accompany a voice as sensual as velvet. "Essence" with its rarefied atmosphere can recall the intro of "Lazy Calm" very beautiful double almost angelic voices. "Summerhead" is the most lively track on the CD, here drums, bass, and guitars are not subdued rather they are driving and the singing is more incisive. Closing with a gem that echoes the structure of the last track of "The moon and the melodies", after an introduction with short but continuous beats, various reverberations, and almost whispered and held back lyrics, you get catapulted into an apotheosis of harmonious and "luminous" sounds, the rhythm increases and the guitars are joyful. The voice finally comes out in yet another love anthem for the daughter.
Live, the magic amplified: the transition from the calm of the intro to the explosion of uncontainable vital joy was achieved by Liz emitting seagull-like high-pitched vocalizations and she gave us wings. I'm not ashamed to say that the emotion rose from my stomach, even the hairs inside my nose stood on end and I cried with joy along with many others present, then I took a flight from the sea to the mountains, passing through woods and all chromatic scales and back.
I don't take hallucinogens, I don't need them.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Know Who You Are at Every Age (03:42)
It seems things are indictive to,
A distinct desire to
Observe such, Heal such
Behave such that makes this hard for me
I'm not real and I deny, I won't heal unless I cry
I can't grieve, so I won't grow, I won't heal 'til I let it go
I'm not real and I deny, I won't heal unless I cry
It seems things are indicative to, A distinct desire to
Observe such, Heal such
Behave such that makes this hard for me
I'm not real and I deny, I won't heal unless I cry
I can't grieve, so I won't grow, I won't heal 'til I let it go
(x2)
Cry, cry, cry 'til you know why, I lost myself, identify
(x2)
I'm not real and I deny, I won't heal unless I cry
I can't grieve, so I won't grow, I won't heal 'til I let it go
02 Evangeline (04:31)
Don't settle for letting someone else define you
Know who you are at every age
What impression am I making?
I see me as other people see me
There is no going back
I can't stop feeling now
I am not the same, I'm growing up again
I am not the same
I'm growing up again
There's no going back I can't stop feeling now
I had to fantasize
I was a princess, Mum and Dad were Queen and King
I ought to have what feeling?
I see me as other people see me
There is no going back
I can't stop feeling now
I am not the same, I'm growing up again
I am not the same
I'm growing up again
There's no going back I can't stop feeling now
Feeling now
There is no going back, and
I can't stop feeling now
I am not the same, I'm growing up again
I am not the same
I'm growing up again
There's no going back I can't stop feeling now
I had to fantasize
Just to survive
I was a famous artist
Everybody took me seriously
Even those who did
Never understood me
I had to fantasize
Just to survive
03 Bluebeard (03:56)
Aliveness
Exploration
Aliveness
Energy
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Aliveness
Exploration
Fulfillment
Creativity
It may be diverting
For some part of him
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you betray my confidence?
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you betray my confidence?
Naming things is empowering
I balance, walk, and coordinate myself, alive
Aliveness energy
Healthy dependence
And healthy independence
And healthy assurances
This love's a nameless dream
And healthy boundaries
And how long would you miss me
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?
07 My Truth (04:34)
You become a world for his
New heart, accepting
And you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
Commit to the work of both
If your love has energy
You have chemistry
And you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
And come to peace
It's frightening
Exciting
Something shakes of forlorn understanding
The truth is not perfect
But it fools and confuses
Every moment vaguely
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
And come to peace
I remember my secret
I write it down and then I tell you it
It's not harm free
Outside of myself
What has saved me?
C-c-c-c-can work through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
You c-c-c-c-c-c-can work through the pain
And come to peace
You can work through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
09 Summerhead (03:39)
My dreams zoom with us
My tears have run away
Our goal, goal collapsed
Energy of lonesome goal
May pushes, leaves and never feels
Shame casts offense
Shame casts her face
Star reason starring of the place
Safe at last
Seeing my thoughts are in order
Safe, fallen down this way
I want to be just what I am
Steal more treasures, steal more gifts
This'll size creative lies
Until we drop
It won't free you to go look for the key
My consciousness don't look away
What might keep them, but a slave
What might keep them, but a slave
My truth's not even- even half of what's
Safe at last
Seeing my thoughts are in order
Safe, fallen down this way
I want to be just what I am
Safe at last
Seeing my thoughts are in order
Safe, fallen down this way
I want to be just what I am
Safe at last
Seeing my thoughts are in order
Safe at last
Safe at last
Seeing my thoughts are in order
Safe, fallen down this way
I want to be just what I am
Safe at last
Seeing my thoughts are in order
Safe, fallen down this way
I want to be just what I am
10 Pur (05:02)
I'm glad you are a girl
I'm pleased to know you
I like you for you
I'm happy you're growing up
Reach and you won't lose me
Destroy the objective, but still sur- vur- vive
You are angry and that's okay
Forgetful or pretending
Tired, ill, or angry, or cold
More assured of what to do
But I do care for you (What a beautiful gift for me)
Reach and you won't lose me
Destroy the objective, but still survive
You are angry and that's okay ... yes
I am not afraid of your anger
What do you need? What do you want?
I love you and I know that you can figure it out
Reach and you won't lose me
Destroy the objective, but still survive
You are angry and that's okay ... yes
I am not afraid of your anger
What do you need? What do you want?
I love you and I know that you can figure it out
Reach and you won't lose me
Destroy the objective, but still survive
You are angry and that's okay ... yes
I am not afraid of your anger
What do you need? What do you want?
I love you and I know that you can figure it out
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