I listen to this album (and the follow-up Two Suns) all the time. Singer Natasha Khan has said in interviews that she wants to "convey the fine line between passion and violence" in her music...I don't think she's talking about guns or knives or fighting, but about the passion behind emotions that cause us to do horrible things we later regret...
My favorite song of hers, though, has very little to do with passion OR violence. Instead, it's about the opposite...indifference or more appropriately...what happens when we lose passion. In the somber and very surreal sounding "What's A Girl To Do" Khan is singing of how much she still wants to love. But the feelings have gone and to where she has no idea. I don't think any song has ever so beautifully captured the pain of falling OUT of love with someone else.
And while the passion is gone...all the things that takes its place (guilt, sadness that the person who once was your world now sparks so little in you) are crippling.
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As for the rest of the album, one word can sum it up: wow!! Every song is a stunner and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire" is a revelation!!
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