“It’s hard for to me to imagine, even, that these songs [on Living With Ghosts"] were just written. Their melodies are so elegant and instinctive that it feels like they must have formed over centuries. Patty dodges around her tunes with so much subtle invention and implied counterpoint that she seems to be drawing on deep cultural memories of what the lines really are to anchor her carefully elaborated variations. Her belief in them is so evident that it seems like she couldn’t possibly have written them herself, for then she would know that they are mortal. How many years has she been cultivating them? How many thousands of times must she have sung these things to herself for them to become so familiar to her that she forgets they could have ever had vulnerabilities or self-consciousness?
“The songs carry her and she them, whirling so fluidly in flight that you can no longer tell whether it’s Clark or Lois doing the flying.”
How many times until the versions in her head drown out the versions she’s singing so thoroughly that she’s no longer aware of the risk that they’ll be different? The songs carry her and she them, whirling so fluidly in flight that you can no longer tell whether it’s Clark or Lois doing the flying. And the night lasts until you’re ready for the dream to end. If it is weather that has aged these songs, then it is weather, too, that has stripped the paint off of David, and perhaps erosion is also an artist’s brush, and there are messages in what it leaves. A few curves, an angle, the proportions of a life.” From furia.com. For the complete review, click here.
Released April 21, 1996
Tracks:
1 Moses 3:28
2 Let Him Fly 3:11
3 Every Little Bit 5:33
4 Time Will Do the Talking 3:54
5 Mad Mission 2:40
6 Poor Man’s House 4:26
7 Forgiveness 5:00
8 You Never Get What You Want 3:42
9 Sweet Lorraine 5:24
10 Not Alone 4:32
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