Daniel Lanois

This all-instrumental fifth studio album from master producer (and former Bob Dylan
collaborator) Lanois could be the soundtrack to a postmodern Western that takes place as
much in the hero's mind as on the plains -- or at least involves some powerful
hallucinogens. Country-tinged tracks like the gorgeous "Agave" evoke the grainy pathos of
a slo-mo death shot, but many of these sketches are too diffuse. Even instrument... More >