Brett Anderson - Wilderness

‘Blessed’ on the other hand is a clear cut love declaration to a very special person and he conveys those feelings without getting cheesy (in my opinion) dressed up in beautiful words “You smile and I’m blessed, you laugh and I’m possessed.” Mantras are used in Eastern spiritual traditions to divert the mind from basic instinctual desires or material inclinations, by focusing the mind on a spiritual idea. Only as a short introduction to the upcoming ‘Funeral Mantra’ which, as you might have guessed already’, diverts a little from the other pieces. You can hear percussions and the conjuring repetitive chant in the background to the dark sounds of strings and it’s like Brett wants to commence a reincarnation “We’ll live again” or it’s just the discovery that it can’t rain all time. “When the pigs fly and when the planets tie, that’s when I come back to you.” clear words struck in this piano piece, bearing witness to negative experience made and lessons learned from it, while you can’t help noticing that two lovers grew apart from each other. “Think I call her number just one time, if she calls back I don’t care and she won’t mind.” The sad mood of this number descends on your soul like a dark shadow and Brett’s moving words only add to the sing not letting you go for a long time. Sad but true we’re already reached the end of ‘Wilderness’ with ‘P. Marius’, another utterly fragile ballad that, even though it sounds like a love declaration, bears unmistakable dark tones and now I’m not so sure anymore “Take the bridge over the serpentine and I see you once again…”

With most minimal means, BRETT ANDERSON managed too create an incredibly touching album that affects you deeply and more than one time you’re sitting there with a lump in your throat. A wonderful album for the dark hours in autumn that could have been much longer for me, but this shouldn’t cut down the overall quality of this release