Check Out Sinead’s New “Theology”

I've just heard the album and think your assessment is on target. It's a superior, reverent, and often extraordinary piece of work. Intimate on the acoustic disc, and kind of awe-inspiring on the electric disc, I certainly think O'Connor has already reached the spiritual-prophet ranks of Dylan or Cash. She was right about the whole hush-hush, child molestation thing (via her 1992 Pope-rip), years before the scandals exploded in ways FAR more disturbing than the shredding of some Pontiff's photograph. She'll not likely get her due in this lifetime, (being a woman of controversy), but her giftedness (especially here) is unquestionable.

I love the way she injects her melodic powers into the Psalms and Song of Songs, and think "Something Beautiful," "Dark Am I Yet Lovely," "Vineyard," and "Glory of Jah," are classic. Young Christians, especially, would be wise to absorb the songs on this record, without judgment. They could be very powerful for worship, and they are very tight and faithful to the Scriptural sources.

Too, the album has since garnered some excellent notices from critics and the industry: USA Today; HotPress; MIxOnline; NY Daily News; etc. Luckily, no one over twelve has cared what Rolling Stone mag has to say about most anything in at least five or six years.

Great & accurate review of an album that has deep significance and sounds very worthy of the mountain-top.

I'm glad Sinead hadn't apologized for ripping up the Pope's photo, and I hope she never does. Sometimes you have to reject spiritual authority before you can come to a spiritual tradition on your own terms. (And hey, it was a photo. That Pope, a tough guy and bouyed by the love of millions, hardly suffered any harm.)

It does sound like she is opening to the tradition in a deep way on her own terms, finding what speaks to her soul and engaging in the kind of creative dialog that can end up being a gift to us all. I'm looking forward to getting her CD. (THough now I'm torn. Dublin or London? Sparse or lush? Dither, dither dither...)

As for ROlling Stone, their reviews may be poor but they've run some great political articles recently, doing serous reporting about some of the uglier things going on in the US under the current administration. So they're still worth reading, if for a different reason.

Peace.

Sinead I am A catholic was visting England June 2007 Saw a interview of
you and you sang about the bible you stole please go to the store and pay for the bible and your music is great keep up the Gods work amen PAX