TheNightingale wrote:
There was such an excitement in her voice ... she doesn't seem to be 'done' with music
There was, wasn't there? I was ever so slightly dismayed at first, because what she's done with the album format is unprecedented and the last three albums have been such titanic achievements I can't believe there's nothing left for her to say. But then I reflected that what she's doing with this play - using the characters as a means of lifting off into something else - isn't so very different from what she's been doing since at least
Is This Desire?, but doing it within a different form. Who would have thought that this was where her genius would lead? Probably not Polly herself. I suppose the creative origins of each of the last three albums overlapped with the one before, so that there has been in a sense a single movement that led her through all that time and, with
Hope Six done, she may not have been sure where to go next for the first time in a dozen years or more. And then this project turns up, opening a door into something else, because it's not
mere soundtrack-writing but generating something new with the material she's given to illustrate. Does that make any sort of sense?