Harps And Angels Vinyl

30 years of randy newman.

Harps and angels vinyl.

Randy newman s first studio album of all new material in nearly a decade is by turns hilarious poignant and scathingly satirical. In many ways harps and angels is a continuation of bad love as it has a similar stripped down production and many of the same lyrical themes as newman still is singing about america and aging just as he was almost a decade earlier. Harps and angels was randy newman s first all new studio recording in nine years. This isn t stasis this is consistency.

Feels like home originally appeared on his musical album randy newman s faust and a demo of laugh and be happy was included in the box set guilty. It incorporates both the scathingly satirical and the unabashedly tender. Variety says the album finds newman at the height of his powers and the guardian praises its sumptuous melodies devastating pathos and thorny irony laden character songs calling it the work of a true master of popular song. It incorporates both the scathingly satirical and the unabashedly tender.

It s quite possible harps are a holdover from ancient greek times when the gods were often said to play lyres as seen in the above painting of apollo. A lyre is a stringed instrument usually made from a turtle shell with two curved arms connected. Harps and angels was randy newman s first all new studio recording in nine years. There is no clear reason for the harp to be the angels instrument of choice.