Title: Sweet excess
Product review: This album has a style and sound all its own: sort of a late-80s impressionist country. The instrumentation, and the way the instruments are recorded, lend the album an austere and somewhat lonely feeling. There are lots of big, crashing drums, almost like timpanis, and dramatic cymbal crashes. There are also a lot of twinkling pianos and the occasional austere-sounding synthesizer. I know I'm not making it sound very good, but the total effect is sublime. Sometimes Emmylou and her producer try too hard to wrench the emotion from your soul, but at least as often they are successful. And when you get to the last steel guitar solo which ends the last (incredible) song, you'll forget about any of the album's excesses. Buy it!
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