The new Clarkson left me cold (but then so did her last album-- I keep waiting for another song that shows her voice off as well as the chorus of "Miss Independent" did and not getting it), but I've really been losing myself in Lisa Gerrard's collab with Elijah's Mantle, These Wings Without Feathers, for the last couple of weeks. I know I've been hearing the name Lisa Gerrard for over a decade, how have I managed to not hear her for so long?
I still haven't figured out whether I really like Vampyr or not; it seems to me that if it weren't Dreyer, it would have faded into obscurity by now (rather like Ordet; I love all the rest of his stuff, but those two?). It's certainly got some striking moments, but it can't really sustain itself. One of these days I'll figure out why.
(Almost completely unrelated-- have you read Kim Paffenroth's Gospel of the Living Dead? I think it reaches sometimes, but I was pleasantly surprised anyway...
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Date: 2008-09-14 07:43 pm (UTC)I still haven't figured out whether I really like Vampyr or not; it seems to me that if it weren't Dreyer, it would have faded into obscurity by now (rather like Ordet; I love all the rest of his stuff, but those two?). It's certainly got some striking moments, but it can't really sustain itself. One of these days I'll figure out why.
(Almost completely unrelated-- have you read Kim Paffenroth's Gospel of the Living Dead? I think it reaches sometimes, but I was pleasantly surprised anyway...