A Short Album About Love - Divine Comedy Reviews

Now that the Divine Comedy (DivCom hereafter) have become the sultry, biting, cynical band we perhaps always wanted them to be, the albums before Regeneration have a certain nostalgic quality about them. They are best remembered for The Frog Princess, Generation Sex, National Express and Something for the Weekend. Although all fairytale-like ...

After having ignored the Divine Comedy for a while, with the recent release of their new album 'Regeneration' I decided to get a few of their older albums off the shelf and dust them off a little and play them again. The first one I started listening to again was 'A short album about love'. It's possibly the album in their back ...

In some ways, this is both the strongest and worst DC album at the same time. It nods to the darkness and twisted lyrics of Casanova and Fin de Siecle, but there is a sweetness that somewhat undermines this. Hannon was a man in love when he wrote this; apparently, it was intended for his then-girlfriend, Orla, who is now his wife. He was on a ...

A Short Album About Love is probably not going to appeal to your average Mariah Carey fan, but for my money it's the best love album on the market. What it gives is a cold hard shot of truth about love - that it isn't sweet and soft, but cold, hard and spiky, full of fear and pain (not that I'm bitter, you understand). ...

It was the quirky pop music of tracks like 'Generation Sex' which first interested me in The Divine Comedy, but it's this album that stands out as their strongest in my mind. There's no pop here and the frequently irreverant lyrics are gone to be replaced with beautiful and honest songs about love. The album is, as its title claims ...

This was the follow up the break through album for the Divine Comedy. Casanova, its predecessor spawned the successful singles “Something for the weekend” and “The frog princess” that got Neil Hannon and his cohorts noticed. On this album though there is less of a ‘pop’ sensibility and more of an easy listening ...

Conceived as an antidote to CASANOVA's concentration on sex (or "the other thing" as Neil Hannon called it), A SHORT ALBUM ABOUT LOVE is a deeply, achingly romantic record. Only seven songs in length, it was recorded as-live with a 30-piece orchestra, and contains some of Hannon's finest compositions. One of the ...