i’ve been obsessing over this one lately, some 26 years after the fact. i’ve always loved it – it belongs to an echelon of elite martin-vocal songs – but i never gave it its proper space because of the earlier ones. the earlier songs – martin’s lead vocal songs and DM as a whole – …
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MG
Europa Hymn from Martin Gore’s solo electronic album (MG) is perfection. Equal parts melancholy, reflective, poignant. What is its tone? Absolutely wistful. In view of beauty. Perhaps bowing down to beauty. A hymn, paying honor to something grand, something transcendent. Martin Gore knows how to translate this very emotion to music so skillfully. He brings …
music vs lyrics
embarrassingly for me, it is not usually about the lyrics. a song gets me with its melody, its chord progression, its impeccable choice of instrumentation. maybe not something to be so embarrassed about. after all, throughout college i had this whole thesis brewing in my head about how words are a mere articulation, oftentimes a …