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On its first album in three years, Clannad turns in another set that combines the group's Irish traditional background with elements of Western pop and world music. Five of the eleven songs contain at least some English lyrics, but the most contemporary sounding track is "Seanchas," which, though its lyrics are in Gaelic, could pass for a Peter Gabriel track. Clannad's sound features many high-pitched sounds, from saxophone to tin whistle and Uilleann pipes, with lots of synthesized equivalents, all supporting the lush choral parts that surround singer Máire Brennan. Brennan's breathy soprano is a cross between Judy Collins and Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA, and she suggests the latter especially when she is singing in English in a plaintive, but slightly distanced way, phrasing oddly as if she had learned the words phonetically. Lore doesn't contain any individual tracks as memorable as "Harry's Game" or "In a Lifetime" (which is what the group would need to consolidate its success in the U.S.), but it is more of the same from musicians who have established an identifiable sound as their own.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Ciaran Brennan, Composer, Writer - Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1999 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Ciaran Brennan, Composer - Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
DISC 2
Noel Duggan, Contributor - Padraig Duggan, Contributor - Richard Dodd, Producer, Produced by - Ciaran Brennan, Composer, Lyricist - Clannad, MainArtist, Compilation Artist - Pol Brennan, Composer, Lyricist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1989 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Ciaran Brennan, Composer - Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1989 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Paul Brennan, Composer - Steve Nye, Producer - Bono, Performance, MainArtist - Ciaran Brennan, Composer - Clannad, Performance, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1989 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Clannad, MainArtist
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1989 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Richard Dodd, Producer, Engineer - Ciaran Brennan, Composer - Clannad, MainArtist - Austin Ince, Engineer
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1989 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Album review
On its first album in three years, Clannad turns in another set that combines the group's Irish traditional background with elements of Western pop and world music. Five of the eleven songs contain at least some English lyrics, but the most contemporary sounding track is "Seanchas," which, though its lyrics are in Gaelic, could pass for a Peter Gabriel track. Clannad's sound features many high-pitched sounds, from saxophone to tin whistle and Uilleann pipes, with lots of synthesized equivalents, all supporting the lush choral parts that surround singer Máire Brennan. Brennan's breathy soprano is a cross between Judy Collins and Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA, and she suggests the latter especially when she is singing in English in a plaintive, but slightly distanced way, phrasing oddly as if she had learned the words phonetically. Lore doesn't contain any individual tracks as memorable as "Harry's Game" or "In a Lifetime" (which is what the group would need to consolidate its success in the U.S.), but it is more of the same from musicians who have established an identifiable sound as their own.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:14:31
- Main artists: Clannad
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited ℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
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