Another thing worth mentioning about Destiny is the abundance of magical and mythical elements. In the past albums we had very little of these, but now some of the songs clearly talk about them
We have pixies in When You Go, the 'elven kiss' in Tir Na Nog and of course Skyrim makes us think of the fantasy world of Elder Scrolls and I See Fire, well, it's part of THe Hobbit soundtrack
It would be lovely if some of the future songs would be about Irish legends and myths, what do you think?
Tir Na Nog actually
is telling an old Irish story - Oisín in Tir na nÓg. Copy/pasting from Wikipedia:
In Oisín in Tir na nÓg, his most famous echtra or adventure tale, he is visited by a fairy woman called Niamh Chinn Óir (Niamh of the Golden Hair or Head, one of the daughters of Manannán mac Lir, a god of the sea) who announces she loves him and takes him away to Tir na nÓg ("the land of the young", also referred to as Tir Tairngire, "the land of promise"). Their union produces Oisín's famous son, Oscar, and a daughter, Plor na mBan ("Flower of Women"). After what seems to him to be three years Oisín decides to return to Ireland, but 300 years have passed there. Niamh gives him her white horse, Embarr, and warns him not to dismount, because if his feet touch the ground, those 300 years will catch up with him and he will become old and withered. Oisín returns home and finds the hill of Almu, Fionn's home, abandoned and in disrepair. Later, while trying to help some men who were building a road in Gleann na Smól lift a stone out of the way onto a wagon, his girth breaks and he falls to the ground, becoming an old man just as Niamh had forewarned. The horse returns to Tir na nÓg.
So the song Tir Na Nog is sung from the perspective of Niamh, the fae woman trying to convince her human lover to come with her to her world, and then trying to convince him not to leave it. This is especially clear in the last verse of the song, which Eabha sings:
Time won't follow the path we came.
The world you left, it forgot your name.
Stay with me and be mine my love,
Spare my heart the pain.
What I
can't figure out is what language the chorus of that song is (it's not Irish), so I don't know what those words mean. Also can't decide if they're saying "scum" or "scun" or "scumn" in "Sha ta co ti oh scum ne rivna" - judging from the videos, Mairead is clearly making an "m", while Oonagh is definitely making an "n"; Susan is sometimes just "n" and sometimes kinda inbetween, and Eabha does some "n" and some "m". That fits with the audio pretty well, too - you mostly hear Mairead's m, but the others aren't entirely matching that - so I don't think it's just a music video lip-synching issue.
Haven't especially delved into the rest of the album yet (Tir Na Nog caught my attention, heh), but I really didn't like Susan's solos, and I really did like My Land and Siuil A Run. And Eabha is awesome; I've really, really wanted more diversity in CW's sound ever since Orla and Meav left, and now we're getting some of that!