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Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT, THE
Title:	New Mother
Label:	YOUNG GOD
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	YG 008CD

"Swans leader Michael Gira's first 'songwriting' project since he discontinued Swans over a year ago. The compositions on New Mother represent powerful, complex and imaginative American songwriting by any standard. Country melancholy flows into raspy blues, dark and psychotic narrative grooves, and gently plucked layers of acoustic and electric guitars, slowly unraveling in psychedelic folk lullabies. Each arrangement is built around solo vocal and acoustic performances -- sometimes incredibly intense, sometimes sensual and understated -- given further variety and psychological depth by orchestration ranging from the stark, raw and expressionist to the lushly cinematic. The instrumentation is appropriately rich and diverse: strings, hammer dulcimer, mandolin, banjo, lap steel guitars, vintage analog synthesizer, choral background vocals, Mellotron, B3 organ, vibraphone, glockenspiel, accordion, double bass, timpani, grand piano and flute."

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT, THE
Title:	How I Loved You
Label:	YOUNG GOD
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	YG 016CD

"Here is the new Angels of Light album. I wrote the songs over the last couple of years. As it turns out, they're all love songs, in one form or another. The songs started out with just my voice and acoustic guitar, and then developed naturally over time by playing them with my friends -- whose collaboration and contributions are positively inspirational, to me anyway. Our combined sensibilities feel very natural at this point, which I guess comes from having played most of the songs live a lot. The songs were recorded live in the studio, then subjected to my usual lapses of over-orchestration. In this case though, I think I reigned myself in, and the final sound/ picture seems to fit organically with the basic songs and lyrics." --Michael Gira

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT, THE
Title:	Everything Is Good Here, Please Come Home
Label:	YOUNG GOD
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	YG 022CD

"The third Angels of Light album started innocently enough, with the intention of collecting well-written songs performed by the musicians who played them live for the last few years, with the addition of a few acoustic songs, lightly colored. Some songs might be construed as sad or poignant, and others 'rock' in a weird, skewed way, sometimes subtle, sometimes excessive. I think I've managed to sort through the chaos, letting the songs discover themselves. It's densely orchestrated in some places, sparse in others. The instrumentation is all over the place, initially built up from my acoustic guitar and voice, then incorporating everything from electronic noise, to banjo and mandolin, bass-drums-electric guitar, (open-tuned) lap steel guitar, vibraphones and marimbas, accordion, fiddles, flutes (yes, flutes), the dreaded children's choir, layered vocal harmonies, drones acquired from various organic sources, piano and Fender Rhodes, trumpet and trombone. It is much, much different than the first two Angels albums." -- Michael Gira

Artist:	ANGELS OF LIGHT, THE
Title:	The Angels of Light Sing Other People
Label:	YOUNG GOD
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	YG 027CD

"Another breakthrough for former Swans frontman M. Gira and company -- short, sharply orchestrated, almost-pop songs that access a multitude of musical styles and references. These 12 finely hewn tributes to friends and heroes, stars and scoundrels make this easily the most accessible Angels of Light offering yet. Fiercely melodic, produced with crystal clarity and often bizarrely arranged, each song inhabits its own peculiar world, built up from Gira's intense and ultra-present acoustic guitar and vocal performances -- poignant, uncomfortably personal, comical, deranged. Featured throughout are sometimes subtle, sometimes weirdly psyched-out instrumental and vocal contributions from Brooklyn's eccentric young avant rock savants Akron/Family, making for yet one more rebirth for Gira. Once again, The Angels of Light sound like no one else."

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