Unexamined Emotions, by Ellen Cosgrove

Unexamined Emotions

by Ellen Cosgrove

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1.	A Backward Look 04:47	buy track
2.	It Wasn't Your Choice to Make 03:33	buy track
3.	They Dance The Marinera 03:37	buy track
4.	I Am Not Untouchable 04:24	buy track
5.	Like a Serenade 03:16	buy track
6.	A Table and a Square 03:19	buy track
7.	You Told Me Before 05:24	buy track
8.	At the Villa 05:29	buy track
9.	Time Long Past 03:26	buy track
10.	Into the Darkness 04:10	buy track
11.	The Shelter of his Hands 02:53	buy track
12.	Fall in Baby 03:33	buy track
13.	Without Another Word 04:12	buy track
14.	Say Goodbye to the Drama Queen 05:10	buy track

about

The album title, “Unexamined Emotions”, has a double meaning. We tend to lack the skills necessary to analyse and understand our relationships. In one sense, we do possess the required vocabulary. We toss around psychological phrases which suggest that we comprehend the heart and its emotions. But in reality we lack insight, being able to occasionally diagnose others’ problems but seldom our own. And so – although we live in a society saturated with the idea of romantic love – we understand love very little. And even though we would very much like to be able to understand ourselves, we are usually unable to do so. In this sense, the album title refers to the time bomb of unexamined emotions in our world.

At the same time, the songs in the album examine the emotional life in intense detail. Usually written from a female point of view, the songs create mini-stories in which experiences such as betrayal, indecisiveness, bad choices and the joys of love (“the masterpiece of life”) are evoked and described. There are songs about warnings unheeded (“You told me before”), stories of last chance saloons (“At the villa”), and evocations of dreams filled with bitter regret (“Time long past”). There are songs about saying goodbye to life (“Into the darkness”), about treachery disguised as love (“The shelter of his hands”), and there is also a celebration of the bliss of sensuality (“Fall in, baby”). At odds with the album title, therefore, the emotions here are pretty comprehensively examined!

You can read all the song lyrics and song backgrounds by clicking the “Lyrics” tab on www.unexaminedemotions.com

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released November 18, 2020

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