Fanfare for the Comic Muse

Rock · 1990 · 7 tracks

Fanfare for the Comic Muse

The Divine Comedy

Seven tracks of jangling, moody indie rock recorded before the chamber-pop polish. A raw, guitar-driven snapshot of a songwriter finding his voice in the fog.

It's the Divine Comedy before they got the orchestra and the suits, sounding like a rainy day in Athens, Georgia.

A restless, overcast earnestness that trades wit for guitar-driven melancholy.

Fanfare for the Comic Muse · vs · The Divine Comedy

Restless+3.5σ

Restless saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 7 Tracks

01

Ignorance Is Bliss

3:42

02

Indian Rain

3:24

03

Bleak Landscape

3:40

04

Tailspin

2:44

05

The Rise and Fall

4:21

06

Logic vs. Emotion

4:34

07

Secret Garden

4:08

Moments Worth Waiting For

The driving, urgent guitar strumming that opens Ignorance Is Bliss, signaling a rock energy Hannon would later abandon.

The atmospheric, slightly psychedelic swirl of the guitars on Indian Rain that creates a thick, humid texture.

The way the vocal melody on Logic vs. Emotion strains with a youthful earnestness that feels entirely un-ironic.

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