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The Dark Before Dawn by Laurie Stevens5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Tone, no matter how dark the catacomb in which he was buried alive. ![]() The even more "mundane" approach of Wild Love (1995) refined Smog'sĬhamber pop, the artist spinning his rosary of self-flagellation in a solemn Songs that ran the gamutįrom expressionist psychodrama to neoclassical lied, and often sounded likeĪ rehearsal for Lou Reed's funeral, reached deep into the singer's alienation. Julius Caesar (1993), instead, introduced a sophisticated composer andĪrranger, no matter how spectral and tragic the mood. Smog experimented with a format of gloomy litanies set to irrational arrangements Sewn To The Sky (1990) and Forgotten Foundation (1992), With the brief, primitive and minimal compositions of One who did not want to live in a world that he did not love. Like Nick Drake before him, Smog conveyed the dismal sense of angst felt by Loneliness that his songs seemed to lull himself into an intoxicating state of apathy and languor. Smog identified so much with his poetry of Paranoid exploration of an obsessive theme, the theme of a life that slowlyįades away in nothingness. Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (2019), 6/10Ī superb architect of fatalist and oneiric atmospheres, devoted his opus to the Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (2009), 6/10 ( Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Legal restrictions - Termini d'uso )Ī River Ain't Too Much To Love (2005), 6/10 Smog: biography, discography, reviews, best albums, ratings ![]()
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