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Track List
01) Dark Road
02) Love Is Blind
03) Smithereens
04) Ghosts in My Machine
05) Womankind
06) Through the Glass Darkly
07) Lost
08) Coloured Bedspread
09) Sing
10) Big Sky
11) Fingernail Moon
01) Dark Road
02) Love Is Blind
03) Smithereens
04) Ghosts in My Machine
05) Womankind
06) Through the Glass Darkly
07) Lost
08) Coloured Bedspread
09) Sing
10) Big Sky
11) Fingernail Moon
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2007
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Songs of Mass Destruction is the title of the fourth studio album by Annie Lennox, released on October 1, 2007 in the UK and October 2, 2007, in the U.S.. The album debuted at number 7 in the UK, and number 9 in the U.S. where it sold 78,000 copies its first week. It was her first album of new material since 2003's Bare.
The first single, "Dark Road", first appeared on Lennox's MySpace page on 15 August 2007. It was subsequently released as a single on 24 September 2007 and charted at number 58 on the UK Singles Chart.
The second single, "Sing", was released digitally on 1 December 2007 and it had a physical release as a single on 17 March 2008. "Sing" is a collaboration between Lennox and 23 other prominent female acts and artists and is a charity record aimed to raise money and awareness for the HIV/AIDS organization Treatment Action Campaign.
The song is a collaboration between Lennox and twenty-three prominent female acts and artists. The line-up consists of Madonna, Anastacia, Isobel Campbell, Dido, Céline Dion, Melissa Etheridge, Fergie, Beth Gibbons, Faith Hill, Angélique Kidjo, Beverley Knight, Gladys Knight, k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, Beth Orton, Pink, Bonnie Raitt, Shakira, Shingai Shoniwa, Joss Stone, Sugababes, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright.
As Lennox reported herself on her official website, this song is about raising money and awareness for what she considers to be the HIV/AIDS genocide
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Annie's latest is a political and emotional tour de force...
Chris Jones 2007-09-27
Annie Lennox’s fourth solo album in fifteen years highlights not necessarily a control freaks’ dedication to perfection of her craft but rather a devotion to ordering her life around things that matter to her. She’s just been busy with family, friends and the wider injustices of human existence; you know…the small stuff. It’s this aspect of her life that’s reflected in Songs Of Mass Destruction.
Less painfully autobiographical as her last release, Bare, on Songs… Lennox displays, beyond any reasonable doubt, why she became a towering crossover icon for two decades. It’s the voice. Filled with the gravitas and emotion that we’ve come to expect, Annie’s pipes seem not to have aged one jot.
But luckily Lennox has packed the tunes as well. Completely self-written, her way with a melody and the inclusion of amusingly idiosyncratic vocal tics as on the opening to “Womankind” - showing that it wasn’t just weird-beard Dave Stewart who had all the groundbreaking ideas in the Eurythmics – lift the often slightly too generic I’m-at-the-end-of-my-tether lyrics out of any mediocrity. Opener "Dark Road" is as fine a soul-searching ballad as she’s ever performed, though she seems more at ease with this gloomier stuff than the up-tempo rockers such as "Ghost In The Machine" which, while showcasing her white R’n’B credentials, remind one of the blander late-period work of her previous band (think of “I Need A Man”).
While her political commitment is to be admired, as is her continued seriousness in maintaining her role as empowered woman in a male-dominated industry (cf: “Womankind”), too often the songs that seem like they should be accompanying some fund-raising video of human injustice or natural disaster. The album’s title probably doesn’t help either. You can overdose on worthiness sometimes. Having said this, "Sing" – dedicated to the cause of awareness of the problem of mother and cvhild HIV infection – easily overcomes its weighty agenda to take life as a great song in its own right.
Truth be told we had little right to expect Lennox to come up with the goods like this when she’s obviously gone beyond the role of mere pop star. Songs Of Mass Destruction does deliver on an artistic and political level. This, in itself, is cause for celebration…
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Songs of Mass Destruction is the title of the fourth studio album by Annie Lennox, released on October 1, 2007 in the UK and October 2, 2007, in the U.S.. The album debuted at number 7 in the UK, and number 9 in the U.S. where it sold 78,000 copies its first week. It was her first album of new material since 2003's Bare.
The first single, "Dark Road", first appeared on Lennox's MySpace page on 15 August 2007. It was subsequently released as a single on 24 September 2007 and charted at number 58 on the UK Singles Chart.
The second single, "Sing", was released digitally on 1 December 2007 and it had a physical release as a single on 17 March 2008. "Sing" is a collaboration between Lennox and 23 other prominent female acts and artists and is a charity record aimed to raise money and awareness for the HIV/AIDS organization Treatment Action Campaign.
The song is a collaboration between Lennox and twenty-three prominent female acts and artists. The line-up consists of Madonna, Anastacia, Isobel Campbell, Dido, Céline Dion, Melissa Etheridge, Fergie, Beth Gibbons, Faith Hill, Angélique Kidjo, Beverley Knight, Gladys Knight, k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, Beth Orton, Pink, Bonnie Raitt, Shakira, Shingai Shoniwa, Joss Stone, Sugababes, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright.
As Lennox reported herself on her official website, this song is about raising money and awareness for what she considers to be the HIV/AIDS genocide
User Album Review
Annie's latest is a political and emotional tour de force...
Chris Jones 2007-09-27
Annie Lennox’s fourth solo album in fifteen years highlights not necessarily a control freaks’ dedication to perfection of her craft but rather a devotion to ordering her life around things that matter to her. She’s just been busy with family, friends and the wider injustices of human existence; you know…the small stuff. It’s this aspect of her life that’s reflected in Songs Of Mass Destruction.
Less painfully autobiographical as her last release, Bare, on Songs… Lennox displays, beyond any reasonable doubt, why she became a towering crossover icon for two decades. It’s the voice. Filled with the gravitas and emotion that we’ve come to expect, Annie’s pipes seem not to have aged one jot.
But luckily Lennox has packed the tunes as well. Completely self-written, her way with a melody and the inclusion of amusingly idiosyncratic vocal tics as on the opening to “Womankind” - showing that it wasn’t just weird-beard Dave Stewart who had all the groundbreaking ideas in the Eurythmics – lift the often slightly too generic I’m-at-the-end-of-my-tether lyrics out of any mediocrity. Opener "Dark Road" is as fine a soul-searching ballad as she’s ever performed, though she seems more at ease with this gloomier stuff than the up-tempo rockers such as "Ghost In The Machine" which, while showcasing her white R’n’B credentials, remind one of the blander late-period work of her previous band (think of “I Need A Man”).
While her political commitment is to be admired, as is her continued seriousness in maintaining her role as empowered woman in a male-dominated industry (cf: “Womankind”), too often the songs that seem like they should be accompanying some fund-raising video of human injustice or natural disaster. The album’s title probably doesn’t help either. You can overdose on worthiness sometimes. Having said this, "Sing" – dedicated to the cause of awareness of the problem of mother and cvhild HIV infection – easily overcomes its weighty agenda to take life as a great song in its own right.
Truth be told we had little right to expect Lennox to come up with the goods like this when she’s obviously gone beyond the role of mere pop star. Songs Of Mass Destruction does deliver on an artistic and political level. This, in itself, is cause for celebration…
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