lamentations

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Adapted from the “Lamentations of Jeremiah,” this is the horror of political terror made manifest, a starving mother having lost her reason.

From Los Angeles Times

Synthesized drums and dissected, distorted vocals open the upbeat electronic track “Lamentations” as Sufjan Stevens sings out: “I was only thinking of human kindness/I am the future, define the future.”

From Washington Times

He put all of his effort into his music, resulting in 2016’s Lamentations, an EP of intimate soul hymnals constructed round lightly fingered riffs.

From The Guardian

Ms. Freeman’s diptychs in “Lamentations,” which have also been published in a book by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, make visible the troubling connection between two threatened environments.

From New York Times

Alter emphasizes similar effects in the Hebrew Bible—the way in which passages in Lamentations, for instance, are shaped as acrostics.

From The New Yorker