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Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
Strange Desire and the Mystery of Love in the Music of Bleachers
Risking Enchantment
1 hour 33 minutes 37 seconds
9 months ago
Strange Desire and the Mystery of Love in the Music of Bleachers
"I was feeling like I never was young
Followed a dream and a strange desire
You picked me up in the dead of the night
And gave me a chance to move on inside of your mystery"
- You're Still a Mystery, Bleachers
In this February episode of Risking Enchantment, Matthias Conroy joins after a five year absence to talk about one of our favourite bands and albums, Strange Desire by Bleachers.
Bleachers is founded and fronted by pop producer extraordinaire Jack Antonoff. While he is most famous for his work co-writing and producing the music of Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and The 1975, Jack’s band Bleachers gives him the space to explore emotions and experiences close to his heart, namely love, grief, sorrow and hope. While in no way a Christian album, Strange Desire gives a depth of wisdom to the experience of love that gives us glimpses of divine love. Even the album’s title ‘Strange Desire’ has an almost Augustinian quality, hinting at our restless hearts yearning for the world beyond our senses. In the episode we discuss and explore the themes of the album and show how we can encounter God in unlikely places in our life and in our culture.
Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod
Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Phoebe Watson
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Risking Enchantment
Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
