Title : Song of the Day: 'Human Child' by Belly
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Song of the Day: 'Human Child' by Belly
The new Belly album, "Dove,' is here and it's a keeper. My friend Jesse wrote a proper review (see below) -- with which I agree wholeheartedly. But what the new music really drives home is that despite Tanya Donelly's incredible talent and presence, Belly really was a band, as none of the songs sound like they belong on one of her solo albums. "Human Child" is by far my favorite. Enjoy.
I don’t usually splurge for things like signed CDs (partly because who even buys CDs anymore), but I made an exception for Belly’s first new album since 1995. No regrets, it’s good!
To be fair, it is only my third-favorite Belly album, but that’s no slight — Star and King are two of my favorite albums of the ‘90s by anyone. Dove is gauzy and tuneful, mostly midtempo slow-burners as befits an album by middle-aged people about middle-aged life. Tanya’s lyrics are less oblique than they used to be, as if she doesn’t have the patience for hiding her intentions anymore. There are songs about lovers and children and break-ups, still fueled by the starry-eyed animism that always made her the dreamy one next to prickly Kristin and nervy Kim. (The “hidden track” at the end of the album is literally called “StarryEyed.”) She’s from New England, of course she’s a transcendentalist. But her love of moonglow and daybreaks is tempered by inescapable mundanities. On “Suffer the Fools,” she tells a recent ex, “I’ll still come by/ I’ll bring that terrible wine you love/ I’ll cut your hair and deadhead your garden.” And on “Human Child,” she boils down parental guidance to a simple declaration: “I’m not here to save you, I’m just trying to get you outside.”
The occasional Americana flourishes fold in easily, a little alt-country with your alt-rock. Overall the album reminds me of Kate Bush’s Aerial, another midlife chronicle that poeticizes the quotidian. Bush was 47 when she recorded that one after her own long lay-off, and Donnelly is 51 now. Dove isn’t as grand in its ambitions or as fully realized in its execution as Aerial, but it stands just fine on its own. And maybe because I’ll be 50 myself next year, I find its joys in small things comforting.
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