Another totally enormous, and quite incredible piece of music, there’s very little else you can say. Then the longest track on the album, the nine-minute I Love You… I’ll Kill You, to close Side A of the original LP. It’s also worth a quick mention for the Wikipedia article for this song, which to my great amusement describes how the single was released on a format called ’12” (30cm)’. Either way, it’s a quite incredible track, and if you disagree you’re wrong. It’s worth mentioning that the main vocal on this track is in fact by an indigenous Taiwanese singer, not a Native American – just for the record.
The same is very definitely true of the next track, the enormous hit single Return to Innocence. The vocal is incredible and evocative, and all the pan pipey stuff turns the whole track into a bit of a rollercoaster ride of emotions.
Seemingly largely forgotten in recent years (that is, it didn’t appear on either of his “best of” albums), it’s easily one of Enigma‘s best tracks. It quickly builds into The Eyes of Truth, one of the singles from the album, and a totally epic track. The first track Second Chapter isn’t really a proper track at all, as much as an introduction, complete with a slightly silly whispered vocal from Cretu’s wife Sandra. (1990), and driven more by the obscure vocal samples than the pure relaxation of the previous album, but it is, for the most part, easily as good. It’s a little darker than its predecessor MCMXC a.D. So it is for me with The Cross of Changes, Enigma‘s second album, released this week in 1993.Ī couple of years on from Michael Cretu‘s debut as Enigma (he’d done a number of albums under other pseudonyms previously), The Cross of Changes is far from the “difficult second album” that you might expect.
With some albums, if you didn’t hear them when they originally came out, it’s difficult to imagine quite what their original release might have been like.
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