The Laughing Wolf

Music Review: The Cruxshadows, Ethernaut

John Ringo has the interesting habit of setting his books to music, or at least to make music an integral part of the book. In his latest book, this has led me to buy The Cruxshadows, Ethernaut and I am glad I did so.

The music is interesting and it was a very pleasant surprise to find what I consider three good songs on the album -- usually just finding one good song is a major plus. In this case, I liked the first song for reasons I can't fully explain. It appears to use some techniques from classical Chinese music, including the use of discordant and atonal vocals (which I have heard referred to as that @$#@#% caterwauling), giving it a very oriental feel.

The song "Winter Born" is the one from the book, and is well worth a listen. The lyrics are good, the tune quite good, and the overall effect wonderful. I can see why he likes it.

There are others on there that I think are good, along with several "there" songs. The overall result is that I am considering buying other CDs by the group to check them out.

LW