In a review of Songs of Mass Destruction for CompulsiveReader.com, writer Daniel Garrett positive album review gave special marks to “Big Sky.” He wrote: “The song ‘Big Sky,’ embroidered with piano notes, might be about a love affair or the natural environment—or a love seen as important as the sky.

The lyrics strike me as vague, and also mention weeping and wailing—but it is Lennox’s voice that threatens and soothes, and the song’s refrain has a radiance making resistance improbable.”

Our #21 takes us to track 10 on ‘Songs of Mass Destruction.’ A bigger than life number, finding our muse screaming at the sky, not knowing where else to place the blame, the heartache, the misery, the failures. Juxtaposed to the 11th track, ‘Fingernail Moon,’ “Big Sky” is a furious piece, with Annie, having no other place to turn, but to the sky to release these feelings. Gone are the sad days of looking down at the pavement cracks in tears and heartbreak.

The stronger Annie, pours out the anger, fist to the sky, and then…a reconciliation happens, in which the realization that we are all darkness and light, yin and yang, happy and sad, frail and strong… in that, we find somewhat of a closure after this larger than life masterpiece.

It is so emotionally moving, like a hurricane and the calm before a thunderstorm, it is no wonder there are more dance interpretations of the track than actual cover versions. Oh, and hell, she uses the word “vortex” – that alone gives this beauty a worthy place in the Top 25 in my book.
– Dan Mueller

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