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Bruce Cockburn
Humans
Stephen Holden /
RollingStone.com
Bruce Cockburn's eleventh album is a quirky, passionate account of this Canadian Christian mystic's struggle to reconcile his rage about a bad relationship with the intense spirituality that's long been the focal point of his writing. Humans' tone ranges from Blood on the Tracks-style rancor ("You Get Bigger as You Go," "Fascist Architecture") to formal, T.S. Eliot-like religious confession ("The Rose above the Sky"). Indeed, Cockburn's juxtaposition of lofty insights and a scorned lover's bile gives the new record an emotional immediacy that his earlier LPs lacked. "I see the beauty – makes me cry inside," the singer announces in "Grim Travellers," a tune that equates personal bitterness with political terrorism.
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