Everything Is Good Here-Please Come Home

Angels Of Light | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 4, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Young God Records
• ASIN: B000083F4O
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,644 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Full Title - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home. The third installment from M. Gira's post-Swans band - quiet, loud, delicate and insane. Digipak. Young God. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be surprised!, December 3, 2004

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musicdoesnthavetobeboring (U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everything Is Good Here-Please Come Home (Audio CD)

Wow. You never know where this album is going to take you. From the opening track it's a journey into a unique and unorthodox musical vision. Taking cues from Great Annihilator-era Swans it's much more than a incremental step in development - this album's a quantum leap in terms of depth and complexity. At times it brings to mind Firewater - if Firewater had lived lives of heroin addiction, pain and misery. Such comparisons are only fleeting though; this album has a sound all of its own. Turn it up loud and go with it...and look forward indeed to hearing what a choir at an insane asylum might sound like on track 7 :)

A true original. I love it, when's the next one?!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Claustrophobic and Repulsively Honest, March 13, 2003

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semanticfelon (tempe, arizona United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everything Is Good Here-Please Come Home (Audio CD)

After the relatively restrained and dignified 'How I loved you,' I expected this album to be a further move towards the Leonard Cohen/Nick Drake mood that Gira so masterfully invoked with the first two AoL albums. But it is evident from the first track 'Palisades' that some psychic disturbance has reasserted itself in Gira's writing. While Palisades has beauty, it also has a violence that is more reminiscent of earlier SWANS work. The lyrics in particular are harrowing: 'Reasons won't come/And no one will regret that you're gone.'
The theme for the album is thus set: the main settings are damp, suffocating family traumas, apart from the gorgeous voyeur's lament 'Kosinski,' which is unquestionably one of the best Gira has ever written. In fact, if this album consisted of nothing but that song and fifty minutes of silence, this would still be the best album of the year to date.
The artwork adds to the feeling of claustrophobia, with pictures of humble rooms that one can easily imagine were the places where god knows how many secret tortures were played out. The music is, in the main, quite a bit uglier than the previous AoL albums- the manic 'Rose of Los Angeles' finds Gira at his most hostile- but like his book 'The Consumer,' the ugliness is so recognizable that it seems like one is listening to one's own inner monologue given external life. And the beautiful moments are thus made even more precious. The closing track 'What will come' swoons and sparkles with ominous charm, even as the narrator begs the God he knows to be absent to save him from the pitiless future. Some people seem to have found a 'redemptive' theme in this work but I confess I can't see it. Any album that begins so bitterly and ends with such a presentiment of dread is not describing the saving of a soul, much as such a release is wished for. However both 'Sunset Park,' which is nearly a prayer, and 'Kosinski' do make one feel the very heights of joy. This is a strange, ambiguous, and furiously passionate album, and there is nothing like it. A bleeding jewel, uncompromised and alone.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars quisp, March 11, 2003

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dan (manchester, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everything Is Good Here-Please Come Home (Audio CD)

this will have swans shaking in disbelief. mr. gira has outdone himself again with this crooning avant-classical folk hymnal of morose mystery.take all the beautiful , truly emotional, songwriting of How I Loved You and blend in a rich medley of aural fireworks-both dissonant and melifluous and you still have only one aspect of this strange album. best album so far this year -in any genre.