2013-02-14
| THE WIRE / UKREVIEW: OFF THE RECORD By Joseph Stannard
(...) "The Tuning of the World", for example, confronts the listener with something distinct from retro-futuristic reverie. Here, Bartos acknowledges the universal pull of mortality with lines such as "I wish I could believe in God" and "I hope I die gracefully". To hear these lines sung gently through a vocoder is to be moved beyond all expectation. (...) |