odradek

Well, it's true that everyone can express their opinions about DeB, but we’re not exactly at the bar here...
A minimum of respect for the subject of the text should be ensured: you’re not talking about just any pop singer, with their sentimental, sycophantic melancholy seasoned with comforting, quasi-folk arrangements that you give top marks to.
You’ve chosen to write about one of the most phenomenal, renowned, and beloved interpreters of a musical tradition with ancient roots, at least a little documented.
Qawwali is a type of religious music connected to Sufism, widespread in the Persian and Indian regions: Nusrat was Pakistani, not just "...the usual boring Arab litanies."

Reading you, it seems this is a recent album, while, I see, it's from 2016...
I was deceived by that "Now they accompany the songs..."
Listening to you some time ago, back in the days of your debut and the worldwide success with the hit "Ho Hey", you seem like a pleasant (at times) unresolved hybrid between pop and folk.
Your opening statement, however, unequivocally clarifies the reason for those 5 stars that, personally, I would assign to very few albums of much greater specific weight.

Too dense, too fast, too hot.
My teeth are sweating.
Maybe I'll listen.
But you intrigue me much more than these intellectual posers.

The record is beautiful.
Like a thunderstorm?
It’s not cruel, nor vain.
So no.
Like a subterranean river that disappears into the earth's depths to reappear on the surface, with an indifferent demeanor, a few kilometers further on?
Maybe, but maybe...(quote Epifanio - 2)

It wouldn't be bad to discover that the boy in question is, in fact, a shy and discreet homosexual, forced to play a role in order to comply with the theory of an anonymous reviewer on an Italian site. And that the Arctic Monkeys are nothing but an accessory and indispensable creature, spawned by such a theory. However, I fear that the metaphysical beauty of such a dream has no place in a cruel world of pubic hair and ox carts. (Cit.)

Regarding the "affaire" hysteria, I would recommend watching "Hysteria," in case you haven’t seen it before.

I don’t know about the vibrations, which are a bit sterile; I vibrate little, but I liked this more than the other. It won’t be a coincidence, in fact, that I appreciated "Under an Holy Ritual," which you mention as similar, back in the day.

Ah, here we go.
I listened to her eons ago, it didn't catch me, I suppose.
I rediscovered her in 2000, I think, with "An Acrobat's Heart," which I liked a lot.
(I’m the anonymous pain in the ass in the comments on DeB’s review.)
Now, after your apology, I will listen to this album carefully.
I won’t deny that often I don’t go beyond a superficial attention to the lyrics, relying on a comprehension as approximate as my limping English; in this case, I feel it’s necessary to get a transcript, as little Annette had interesting things to say.
You say that the reason you would be unsuitable to review the album is that "this album is musically light-years away from me."
The outcome seems to demonstrate the opposite, and I’m not surprised: generally, a "foreign" perspective captures the nature of things with greater clarity and sincerity.
I’ve encountered both women like "Billie" (...but I love him) and like Annette.
It’s always complicated to understand that it’s rather pointless to try to go against the current, because that’s what we are pushed to do (well, I’m speaking for myself).
Those two natures, it seems, are irreducible.

I hope you'll forgive the idiocy, but I have to ask you:
"he put it where he could"
"he killed two birds with one stone"
are these expressions that came naturally, or did you choose them with clear precision?
P.S. Joking aside, beautiful portrait.