TRS, of course!

[gaffa@mind.ORG (Valerie)]

Kate has served up quite a treat this Halloween.  What an album! I don't 
think we've seen a hard, ghoulish, creepy Kate like this since The 
Dreaming. A few of the tracks could easily fit in on that masterpiece, 
yet other songs go to opposite extremes.  On a first listen, what is 
exciting about the album are the dips the listener goes through, starting 
with RBG, into And So Is Love, on to the goofiness of ETM, and straight 
into the solemn MoP.  Then up again into TSoS. Lily is just surreal and 
disturbing. 

Does anyone find it striking what a difference there is between the first 
half and the second half of this album? I'd love to hear this on cassette 
or album, and see how the gap falls. TRS is not an epic like TNW, and it 
isn't closely strung in theme like the second side of TKI, but it all 
fits.  I really can't wait to take a much closer look at this album, 
especially the second half.

Which all makes me wonder again, _why_ release ETM, arguably one of the 
weaker tracks (weak being relative of course) on the album, as the first 
single in America? Is radio really that bad here (a rhetorical question, 
folks)? 

==> Valerie


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