I thought about it a lot, why I do like WPINOYB so much.
First of all, I do like all his albums and for me WPINOYB comes second, ex-quo with Viva Hate after Vauxhall And I.
I think WPINOYB is his most serious, expressing even more deeply all things that is in his mind and inner world. I think it has come to the closest as he possibly can get in getting that across as an artist exploring and expressing himself.
There are signs of a deep awareness about what life is, what death is, what love is and forgiveness.
I like for instance the big contrast between Kiss Me A Lot and Smiler With Knife.
I know many people dislike Kiss Me A Lot as it is seen as commercial, lightweight and throw away lyrics.
But then you miss that what he is expressing in that song and that is the overwhelming, magical feeling of being in love, longing to kiss your love, forever and always and anywhere and never mind about anything.
I'd say that is a magical feeling and a universal feeling that anybody can relate to as it is an important part of life too.
Then, in contrast there is Smiler With Knife.
Even if there is the wish to die and the invitation to Death itself to take him,
The music is so beautiful and almost denying Death is the end of it all.
As if you go through some tunnel of light and then, there is something, a non describable, magic, spiritual like existence.
Moz and his band did something there that has been always a underlying goal of great art.
To defeat Death. And in a way this song does that to me.
All the other songs are great too.
Mountjoy is unbelievable, without precedent.
I don't know any other singer ever doing that.
I'll stop now, otherwise this post becomes even longer then it already is.