专辑简介

"Home Songs, Volume 3" is a fitting summary and an impressive distillation of the disparate aesthetic impulses that Ross chased down over the years he worked on this project. From the artfully more aggressive but entirely authentic re-imagining of Richard & Linda Thompson's "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight", to the pop craftsmanship & nuanced production flourishes of "Sink or Swim", to the introspective "Twisted Phrase", Bellenoit has brought this project to a fitting and compelling close with this miniature tour de force. 

The entirety of this project and Volume 3 most especially, embodies the sort of negative capability that poets and aestheticians have been seeking to grasp for hundreds of years. Much like Keats described in the essay in which he coined the term, Home Songs is an instance "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts"; it is ambitious, but not over-reaching; it acknowledges the fullness of existence (and of art), but also dwells in their respective & collective ambiguities. Nowhere is this more evident than in this line from the moody Mark Knopfler meets Elvis Costello allegory of "Currency": "Nothing is the everything we need". It's precisely this sort of insight that makes the entirety of Home Songs an indispensable collection of songs.