Search - Angels of Light :: How I Loved You

Eat gravel

Zachary Cregger | Brooklyn, NY United States | 11/17/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Michael Gira's Angels of Light is essentially a collection of very masculine lullabyes. Generally the songs contain the hypnosis that was utilized in his earlier swans albums but the sonic scale and the attention to detail, both lyrically and structurally has been evolved. What does that mean? I don't know. But I like to think of evil cowboys alone on the prairie at night when I listen to this."

Next Mother

Dirk Hugo | Cape Town, South Africa | 06/21/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Michael Gira's second "Angels Of Light" album returns to the same organic roots of its predecessor, but this time the songs are longer and more sprawling without an increase in structural complexity. Pretty much as close as you could get to a Swans Unplugged album, "How I Loved You" is by no means a poor or substandard offering, but it does not achieve the compact and distilled beauty unveiled so magnificently on "New Mother". The shorter and simpler songs work better here, achieving greater emotional resonance than those that return Gira to the territory of the ten minute epic."

The best of the Angels so far

Michael Richards | Berkeley, CA | 03/30/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I own all Angels releases and many SWANS. This is my favorite Angels release so far. Of all of Gira's recent recordings, I think this one is the most consistent. Gira mostly stays within the bounds of what he does best -- intense, hypnotic and strangely beautiful songs that dwell in a disturbingly ambiguous emotional realm."