★★★★★
Lanois's nu-actuelle instrumentations course through your veins like sweet slow poison, unless you're one of the holdouts who prefers to drink yourself to death, Acadie-style. As one might expect, the legendary U2/Dylan producer knows how to pull together a band, and here his solo meanderings, heavy on the emotive pedal steel, are accented by heavy conjugations by such luminaries as Brad Mehldau, Daryl Johnson and Brian Blade...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Daniel Lanois Here Is What Is Red Floor Records 2008 Sharing the Process: The Film Daniel Lanois' film, Here Is What Is, is one of those miraculous movies, a picture that seems to have come together by laws unto itself. It merely exists, like some inexplicable and wonderful quirk of nature. In an era whose artistic expression has come to be dominated by the stultifying forces of financial and strict mass appeal conservatism, Daniel Lanois reminds us to keep our options open...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Daniel Lanois Acadie Goldtop Edition Red Floor Records 2008 Although Daniel Lanois' production and engineering wizardry have secured his place in the musical hall of fame, his own debut album Acadie (Warner Bros., 1989) revealed another talent?songwriting. The album is about as perfect a debut as an artist could hope for, containing every single aspect of what makes Lanois so special, presenting him as both a fertile author and a gifted musician...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Born September 19, 1951, Lanois has mortality on his mind, and "I Love You" nails it: "Come sure, come soon, come leave just one song/One song, one beat, one dust, one end, one for all/One stone for the marking for the dream when it falls." But this isn't literature, and since true fatalism requires a steely resolve that the failed humility and fake passivity of Lanois's gauzy sound don't comprehend, I pray somebody makes those lines worth hearing...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
In which Lanois adapts the all-embracing New Orleans groove to new age--not soft or lite or adult contemporary--rock. It has that intellectual aura, you know? Contemplating the human condition in sound as well as folkish words and melody, the mild-voiced Eno crony pieces together compositions that are half song, half "atmosphere" (as in "The atmosphere for this goes back a few years"). And tops them off with just you guess--"Amazing Grace," dummy.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The second record from ace producer-performer Daniel Lanois has the hypnotic power of a slow-burning candle: For the Beauty of Wynona's lush, soft-focus beauty can be riveting, or it can put you right to sleep. Lanois folds Indian, Middle Eastern, and African flavors into folk and laid-back, bluesy rock, with meticulous layering of guitar, percussion, and sleepy-eyed voice. And as lumbering and logy as some of the melodies are, you can't help wondering what kind of dreams they'd induce.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
The opening two tracks on Daniel Lanois' first solo album in ten years are reminders of the producer's glorious past. Lanois harmonizes with sometime collaborator Emmylou Harris on the dense opener, "I Love You," which is followed by the gentle "Falling at Your Feet," a song written and sung with Bono. Otherwise, though, Lanois goes it alone on Shine: writing the songs, playing most of the instruments and, of course, producing...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
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 instrumentals should lead somewhere.
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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