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Fearful Symmetry (album)

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Released
  
1986

Release date
  
1986

Label
  
Frontline Records

Artist
  
Daniel Amos

Producer
  
Daniel Amos

Recorded
  
3-D Studios(Costa Mesa, California)

Fearful Symmetry(1986)
  
Darn Floor - Big Bite(1987)

Genres
  
Rock music, Alternative rock

Similar
  
Daniel Amos albums, Rock music albums

Daniel amos 01 a sigh for you


Fearful Symmetry is the seventh studio album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos, issued on Frontline Records in 1986. It is the fourth and final album in their ¡Alarma! Chronicles album cycle and the first of three albums the band issued under the shortened moniker DA.

Contents

A sigh for you da


Background

Fearful Symmetry is a lush, synthesizer driven pop album, lyrically wrapped in puzzles that the listener has to decipher. Nearly every song on Fearful Symmetry in some way deals with pain or darkness - from the William Blake-inspired "Sleep Silent Child", a song about death, to "Strong Points, Weak Points", a song about doubt. The album title comes from a line in The Tyger by Wm. Blake. The album ends on an upbeat note however, with the touching ballad, "Beautiful One".

Fearful Symmetry was the final chapter of a four-part series of albums by DA entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles, which also included the albums ¡Alarma!, Doppelgänger, and Vox Humana. The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens synchronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. This album, along with the other three albums from the Alarma! Chronicles, was re-released as part of the Alarma! Chronicles Book set in 2000. The Book Set included three CDs, over 200 pages of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information in a hardcover book.

As with Vox Humana, keyboardist Rob Watson was unavailable for the photo session for this album. Thus the album's group photo only shows four of the five band members.

Side one

  1. "A Sigh For You" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler)
  2. "The Pool" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler)
  3. "Sleep, Silent Child" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler)
  4. "Neverland Ballroom" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler)
  5. "Strong Points, Weak Points" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler)

Side two

  1. "Instruction Through Film" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch/Chandler)
  2. "When Moonlight Sleeps (On The Frosted Hill)" (Taylor)
  3. "Sudden Heaven" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch)
  4. "Shadow Catcher" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Chandler)
  5. "Beautiful One" (Taylor)

Personnel

  • Tim Chandler – bass guitar
  • Greg Flesch – guitar
  • Ed McTaggart – drums
  • Terry Scott Taylor – rhythm guitars, lead vocals
  • Rob Watson – keyboards

    • Additional musicians

  • Jerry Chamberlain — background vocals
  • Doug Doyle, Dave Hackbarth — synthesizer treatments
  • Crystal Lewis — background vocals
  • Alex MacDougall — percussion

    • Songs

    1A Sigh for You3:59
    2The Pool3:52
    3Sleep Silent Child4:44

    References

    Fearful Symmetry (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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