| While the album mainly belongs to Lavelle (besides writing and singing most tracks, she also provides cellos, bass, keys and loops), contributors include Hector Zazou, Michael Nyman, Charlie May and co-writer/instrumentalist Clare Kenny, among others.
Steeped in the languor of sorrow, Farther than the Sun's words and music emit sweet aching. With more-electronic overtures, the writhing bass and spattering drums of Anxiety stalk determinedly, Lavelle's voice pitching and rolling wordlessly between verses.
Ecovative of meandering green countrysides in some soft-focus filmscene,
Anima Rising successfully reaps from Enya-esque pastures.
Thoroughly modern e-rhythms slither beneath (and multi-tracked vocals self-harmonize over) the strum-and-drum of She Said. The Fall's lyrics are thoughtfully-delivered over solemn-though-sparkling piano lines. Poetry from foreign pasts are given new life in orchestral/ethereal Siamant'o (and again in the French ear-cinema of Le Pourquoi).
Experimental atmospheres lurk behind the moodily entrancing Karma while more-straightforward neo-classical instrumentation dances throughout the shining shadows of Mangoes. With a delicious swaying groove stirred by downtempo beats, Firefly Night illuminates the hushedly wavering guitar/synth/voice backup.
The rather minimally-applied acoustic stringsounds and voice of sepia-toned Universal are followed by purely instrumental Twisted Ends (1:52) and Lavelle's elegant piano/cello rhapsodies. In closing, Kid Loco provides a slightly-more-pumped-up remix of earlier self-reliance anthem
All I Have) (9:34).
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