The Angels of Light – Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home (2003)

October 30, 2023

This is probably the first time that I have felt bad giving a record 3.5 out of 5. Everything Is Good Here is so achingly beautiful that I feel it deserves more, but the reality is that there are quite a lot of songs on this album that just don’t really stand out for me. If Sing Other People didn’t exist, then Everything Is Good Here would probably be my least favourite Angels Of Light album. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t ay good.

The production, I think by Gira and long-time collaborator in that regard Martin Bisi, is absolutely stunning. You can tell that so much love and care has gone into producing this record properly in a quality recording studio. “All Souls Rising” is one of my favourite Angels tracks, and “What Will Come” is a perfect album closing track.

I do miss Angels Of Light. Their demise is a small price to pay in order to have Swans around still in 2023.