Search - Secret Shine :: After Years

Magnificent

04/21/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD is a towering masterpiece of dream pop shimmer! Why Secret Shine were never appreciated as much as inferior bands like Lush were will always be beyond my understanding. The typical adjectives I often see used to describe other great shoegaze bands like "brilliant," "lovely," "transcendent," or "beautiful, ethereal melodies" just don't do justice to this CD. All I can say is that of almost all of the CDs I own, no CD is more deserving of the followig quote by Arthur Schopenhaeur than this one:Music is "a universal language in the highest
sense, which has roughly the same relationship to
the universality of concepts as these have to
individual things... This intimate relationship
which music has to the true essence of all things
explains why, when appropriate music sounds in
any scene or action or event or environment, it
seems to open up to us its most secret meaning
and supplies the most accurate and intelligible
commentary upon it. For music is different from
all the other arts in the sense that it is not a
copy of the appearance or, more accurately, the
adequate objectivity of the Will but the
unconditional copy of the Will itself and,
therefore, to everything that is physical in the
world it is the metaphysical, to every appearance
it represents the essence. One could in
consequence just as well call the world embodied
music as embodied Will: hence it is
understandable why music throws every painting --
indeed every scene of actual life and the world --
into bold relief in heightened significance." -
Arthur Schopenhaeur, The World as Will and Idea"