Review: 'The Distance to Here' by Live

Live puts a new twist on love songs; the majority of their music has to do with love and its peaks and valleys. They stand out, however, in their focus on the intensity, and even dangerousness, of love. Live's description of love is rarely something warm and hopeful; instead, it is described as something dangerous, something that can cut extremely deep, and something overwhelming. Love is sublime; it is an overpowering, uncontrollable force.

My favorite song on this CD is 'Run to the Water', in which love is described as something that burns to the core, and consumes you. It is "... light and rainbows, smashed to smithereens..."

I love how Live weaves the elements into their songs, creating powerful visual images in the listener's mind. They are able to visualize and paint pictures of emotions and the intensity of feelings better than any artist I've seen.

Their religious references are also interesting; I don't know where exactly they are on their spiritual journey, but their music is filled with allusions to everything from Christianity to Eastern religions to Atheism.


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