format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,72]
producer: Nel Hannon
label: Parlophone Records - nationality: Northern Ireland, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Absent Friends" (studio session) - 2. "Sticks and Stones" (4 / 5) - 3. "Leaving Today" (4 / 5) - 4. "Come Home Billy Bird" - 5. "My Imaginary Friend" (3,5 / 5) - 6. "The Wreck of the Beautiful" - 7. "Our Mutual Friend" (4 / 5) - 8. "The Happy Goth" (live) - 9. "Freedom Road" - 10. "Laika's Theme" - 11. "Charmed Life" (live)
8th studio album by The Divine Comedy is Hannon's second on Parlophone, and now he has put himself in the producer seat.
After a short detour into art pop this marks a return to his heydays of A Short Album About Love (1997). Vanished is the experimental and darker style as heard on Regeneration (2001), and instead full focus on chamber pop orchestrated with horns and violins, and a bunch of great songs.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
