I remember buying this on the strength of a good review in The Wire. It's one of those where my memory is of not liking it very much after the first few listens. If it weren't for me going through everything one-by-one, I have no idea how long it would have been before I picked this out of the rack again.
Now that I have, I find it's not as bad as I remember. It's a concept piece, made up of four tracks (Grief, Anger, Prayer, Salvation), so it kind of reminds me of Coltrane's A Love Supreme. The them from Salvation is incredibly familiar from somewhere, but I can't place it.
It being a 1998 release by an electronic artist, there's also a CD-ROM element on the disk. I tried double-clicking on this: it fired up Mac OS9 and a pretty but over-designed and complex screen came up. I tried clicking on some bits of this, and the screen changed, but I couldn't figure out the navigation or controls at all. I'm sure there should have been music to accompany the visuals, but I couldn't hear any. After a few clicks, the screen resolution started to degrade, and then the whole application hung, and I had to crash out of it, and restart to get my screen back. So, a fairly typical 1990s CD-ROM experience.
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