Daniel Lanois - Shine
Daniel Lanois is one of those artists who record new albums very rarely, but whose output I await eagerly. Given the quantity and quality of his ‘other work’, I’m amazed that he gets anything of his own recorded at all: he has produced albums for U2, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, and collaborated with other eminent musicians like Brian Eno. I have his two previous albums (‘Acadie’ and ‘For The Beauty of Wynona’), and I love them to bits. ‘Acadie’ is a very intimate album, with a lot of allusions to Acadian/Cajun culture and song. It’s almost roughâbut I mean that in a good way! ‘For The Beauty of Wynona’ is different again, evoking industrial landscapes and the lives of blue-collar workers, and has a darker tone, especially on the title track. So I was curious about where he was going to go with ‘Shine’.
