…Featuring 4 additional tracks (‘Sweet Thames Flow Softly’, ‘Yellow Triangle’, ‘Music to Our Ears’, ‘Butterfly’) and a re-imaged version of the track ‘The Big Marquee’ which featured on the original album.
The title, borrowed from WB Yeats’s poem Easter 1916, and the cover, a landscape with an ominous fiery glow in the distance, suggest a confrontational, political record.
There is indeed some score settling on the 25th studio album from a singer who, at 79, remains one of Ireland’s national treasures, but Christy Moore has ever been a nuanced artist, offering the full emotional gamut in the songs he writes and curates. Humour, rage, empathy, sorrow and joy roll seamlessly into each other, united…