The Divine Comedy – Foreverland {Deluxe Edition} (2016) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Divine Comedy – Foreverland {Deluxe Edition} (2016) 
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:38:19 minutes | 0,99 GB | Genre: Pop
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The Divine Comedy are an orchestral pop band from Northern Ireland formed in 1989 and fronted by Neil Hannon. Neil Hannon has time and again proved to be one of the UK’s best and most original songwriters. “Foreverland” (11th studio album) exemplifies this, with references to everything from Catherine The Great to the French Foreign Legion. A two-disc deluxe edition comes with a bonus CD featuring a studio recording of In May, Neil Hannon and Frank Alva Buecheler’s acclaimed chamber opera, which explores the relationship between a dying son and his absent father through a series of letters. This is sung by Neil Hannon, with string quintet and piano.

The follow-up to 2010’s fun but frivolous Bang Goes the Knighthood, Foreverland continues to follow Neil Hannon’s descent into happiness, offering up an amiable 12-track set that manages to locate the semi-sweet spot between treacly and savory. Hannon wastes little time in doling out the confectionaries, lampooning his fame and stature on the winking “Napoleon Complex,” a jocular bit of chamber pop fluff that provides a nice litmus test for what’s to come. Hannon’s pure pop acumen has always helped to temper some of his flightier tendencies, and that knack for taming preciousness with melodic might lends a nice charge to Foreverland’s first single, “Catherine the Great.” A thinly veiled love letter to his significant other, Irish singer/songwriter Cathy Davey, it’s a classic Hannon production, delivering whimsy and wit via a three-minute, self-described “silly love song” that’s presented in the guise of a droll Russian history lecture – the charming Davey herself appears on the Gershwin-esque duet “Funny Peculiar.” Hannon, ever the self-deprecating gadfly, does his best to try and inject some conflict into his current state of bliss on the propulsive, manchild eviscerating – and occasionally cringe-inducing – “How Can You Leave Me Here on My Own,” but the warmth that radiates from fearlessly tender gems like “My Happy Place” and “The One That Loves You” suggests otherwise. There’s no mistaking Foreverland for anything other than the work of an artist who has chosen to give up his fight with the not-so-cruel-after-all mistress that is contentment.

Tracklist:
CD1 #01 – Napoleon Complex
CD1 #02 – Foreverland
CD1 #03 – Catherine the Great
CD1 #04 – Funny Peculiar
CD1 #05 – The Pact
CD1 #06 – To the Rescue
CD1 #07 – How Can You Leave Me On My Own
CD1 #08 – I Joined The Foreign Legion (To Forget)
CD1 #09 – My Happy Place
CD1 #10 – A Desperate Man
CD1 #11 – Other People
CD1 #12 – The One Who Loves You

CD2 #01 – 6th Of December
CD2 #02 – 11th Of December
CD2 #03 – 13th Of December
CD2 #04 – 23rd Of December
CD2 #05 – 3rd Of January
CD2 #06 – 13th Of January
CD2 #07 – 15th Of January
CD2 #08 – 30th Of January
CD2 #09 – 7th Of February
CD2 #10 – 22nd Of February
CD2 #11 – 8th Of March
CD2 #12 – 27th Of March
CD2 #13 – 4th Of April
CD2 #14 – 4th Of April (Midnight)
CD2 #15 – 3rd Of May
CD2 #16 – 10th Of May
CD2 #17 – 21st Of May
CD2 #18 – 28th Of May
CD2 #19 – 31st Of May

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