Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home - Heartwarming Home Decor for Cozy Living Spaces

Rarely does a musical piece deliver the same structure, mood and aftereffects that an abstract motion picture does. One of these extraordidnary albums is Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home by the Angels of Light, the third full-length album from ex-Swans vocalist and Brooklyn based label, Young God Records owner, Michael Gira. At the end of the album, like an elusive film, the listener is left slightly disoriented, yet yearning for more. Once can only wonder why such classic film-noir music has yet to be featured on the soundtracks to surreal films by eccentric directors everywhere.The album's often menacing tone, is due to the resonant orchestral instrumentation, which provides an almost majestic, enduring eminence in the ways of a more mature Black Heart Procession.Gira touches on such subjects as betrayal, the loss of love, death and all things dour. However, what at first appears to be simplistic, faint lyrics, with each line having no real connection to the former, when scrupulously examined, the actual message becomes clear. When these same morose lyrics are sung through Gira's murky, brooding voice, the dismal background music only aide in furthering his melancholy expressions.When compared to previous Angels of Light albums, Everything Is Good Here/Please come Home continues in a similar fashion, however, there is a newfound maturity and passion that is much more prevalent. The great intensity of the album is what sets them far apart from similar bands like Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and New York's own gothic lounge-noir act, Piker Ryan's Folly.Maybe Gira is just a troubled man rying to do his best living in a shallow, ominous world, or maybe he's an often un-recognized musical genius and true visionary. Either way Everything is Good HEre/Please Come Home is a benchmark album that will hopefully set the stage for future disenchanted musicians.