Jane Dark’s Sugarhigh! continues to post extracts from this, by the looks of things tremendous, publication. Today’s, on Sinead O’Connor’s reading of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U, especially caught my eye for what should by now be fairly obvious reasons:

But there is another way to describe the matter, intrinsic to the song and the particularity of its distant, echoey keen. This is in the attenuated shock of realizing that the song is beautiful anyway – that beauty is possible even in this death-in-life, this world where nothing can ever happen.