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The last CD of her illustrious career, after growing up in public and manifesting her many phases in her music, Sinead O'Connor has finished it up and come back home to what she knows best: Ireland. Sinead defined this as the album "I've been dying to make...all my life," in a way it was
an album I'd been dying to hear all my life - being a huge Sinead fan and a lover of Irish
traditional music.
Track listing:
01 Peggy Gordon
02 Her Mantle So Green
03 Lord Franklin
04 The Singing Bird
05 Oro, Se Do Bheatha 'Bhaile
06 Molly Malone
07 Paddy's Lament
08 The Moorlough Shore
09 The Parting Glass
10 Baidin Fheilimi
11 My Lagan Love
12 Lord Baker (with Christy Moore)
13 I'll Tell me Ma
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It was exactly what I expected, Sinead swaying
between her tender and hard voices. Yet a little less tender and hard, and passionate than
previous recordings. Perhaps she wanted to stay true to the original songs without adding
too much of her own influence despite a bit of reggae and electronica added into the mixture, I'm not sure, but I know that the songs weren't as heart-swelling as what I was accustomed to. No, I don't expect the fierceness the "The Lion and the
Cobra" had nor the sweetness of a very fragile voice in much of "Universal Mother," but I did
expect it to be consistent in the amount of feeling each of her previous albums has invoked.
I will say this though, it is a very lovely album, especially the songs "Peggy Gordon" and
"Molly Malone," songs that would go along with a nice spring drive - which is not bad, not
bad at all.
-Jennifer Hall 01/08/03
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