Audio CD review:
Peter Gabriel - Security

Peter Gabriel - Security

Band: Peter Gabriel Title: Security Rating: Release Date: 07 May, 2002 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: The Rhythm Of The Heat 2: San Jacinto 3: I Have The Touch 4: The Family And The Fishing Net 5: Shock The Monkey 6: Lay Your Hands On Me 7: Wallflower 8: Kiss Of Life

Editoral Review In every other respect, however, Security was another stride beyond the progressive-rock terrain Gabriel had explored from Genesis forward. After three eponymous discs noteworthy for their thematic richness and musical experimentation, Peter Gabriel yielded to conventional wisdom by actually titling this 1982 successor. Most crucially, he goes deeper into the heart of world music and further investigates the African sources first invoked on the prior album's magisterial track, "Biko. " Security is steeped in polyrhythms, sculpted with synthesizers, and detailed with percussive textures set to a low boil beneath Gabriel's yearning vocals. Its themes of transcendence and identity, and contrasts of modern isolation with primordial community, reverberate through "Lay Your Hands on Me," "I Have the Touch," "The Rhythm of the Heat," and "San Jacinto. " And in "Shock the Monkey," the set's initial hit, Gabriel portentously stands dance rhythms on their head in a troubling, funny riff on the mammal within. --Sam Sutherland .. You can see a complete list of all Peter Gabriel discography, or go back to the Peter Gabriel tabs