Product Description The Mere Fact that this Album was Even Finished is Testament to the Boundless Resolve and Determination of the Former Orange Juice Frontman. Collins Suffered a Stroke and Two Brain Hemmorages in Early 2005 that Would have Killed a Mere Mortal, but as his Fans Know, Collins is Hardly That. The Album Tracks were Actually Recorded Prior to the Stroke, but Production Didn't Commence Until Collins Had Recovered Enough to Stride Confidently Back Into the Recording Studio. Needless to Say, this is the Most Heartfelt and Direct Songwriting Collins Has Ever Presented the World and his Enthusiasm and Dedication for the Album is Truly Awe Inspiring. Amazon.com Home Again is the first album from Edwyn Collins since his cerebral haemorrhage in 2005, which left the former Orange Juice frontman seriously ill in hospital. Don't be fooled by the title, though. Recorded before Collins' hospitalisation but only mixed after his recovery, this record isn't so much a story of rehabilitation as an album written in the spirit of reflection. Much of Home Again, you see, finds Edwyn chasing his history, retracing his roots--see the ancient-sounding, folksy "Leviathan", written about Collins' hometown in the East Highlands of Scotland, or "Libertinage Rag", which finds him singing "I'll take a train/I'll take a plane/Way up north, where they know my name/Where they don't bug me/How some folk do" over deft, finger-plucked guitar and subtle percussion. Elsewhere, there're songs of love and affection ("In Your Heart" and "One Track Mind"), a bluesy, Biblical stomp in the shape of "7th Son", and the gorgeous title track--a delicate, classic-sounding torch song that stands not just as a symbol of Edwyn Collins' survival, but as a story of joyful salvation for any of life's tired travellers. --Louis Pattison
