Search - Suzanne Langille :: Let the Darness Fall

Suzanne Langille is one of the most distinctive vocalists in America, but also one of the most underrecognized. The latter situation is quite likely due to the fact that until 1998 she had only made a handful of appearances on her husband Loren Mazzacane Connors's records. But the release of this CD, less than a year after her long-playing solo debut, Enchanted Forest, suggests that Langille has hit a purple patch in her artistic career--and we can only hope that it continues. Langille's low-pitched, quivering voice infuses her lyrics about loneliness and spiritual longing with deeply felt emotion. Connors eschews the pure-sound exploration that has dominated his recent solo work and instead shades and amplifies Langille's vocalized sentiments by playing stark single-note leads and sparse, rumbling chords. Andrew Brunes and David Daniell, who are members of the trio San Agustin, uncannily duplicate Connors's weeping timbres to complete the air of exquisite melancholy that enfolds this gorgeous recording. --Bill Meyer