The Corrs – Home (CD)

 

Sound: B     Music: C+

 

 

The Corrs are responsible for one of the most annoying, obnoxious, tired, overplayed, whinny, dreadful, awful hit singles since the 1980s: Breathless.  If anything, it set them back for more hits and they likely know it.  The quasi-yodeling and mind-numbing quasi-Soft Rock drumbeat that opened the song was always a reason to change the radio channel, cable music channel or take a toilet break.  Even possible suicide could intervene.  Well, the band is back and Home (2006) is a serious rollback to traditional Irish work.  The songs include:

 

My Lagan Love

Spaneill Hill

Peggy Gordon

Black Is The Colour

Heart Like A Wheel

Buachaill On Eirne

Old Hag

Moorlough Shore

Old Town

Dimming Of The Day

Brid Og Ni Mhaille

Haste To The Wedding

 

 

Well, this is all an improvement, if a step backwards into doing anything progressive or memorable.  It is competent and sincere in the coverage of the Jean Corr songbook, but this will not be for everyone, though Enya fans will enjoy it.  The PCM 2.0 16bit/44.1kHz Stereo is just fine for a new recording, if nothing spectacular.  The booklet included has lyrics and some other technical information, but nothing by way of the history in the text.  Guess you’ll have to search the web for that information.  Get this one at your own risk.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo