I haven't had Annie Lennox's Songs of Mass Destruction long enough to really give it an in-depth review yet, but it's currently blowing my head off.

I wasn't quite as excited at the first single, "Dark Road," as other folks were, so I wasn't in a particular hurry to get the CD, and yet I picked it up Tuesday when it came out. It's been playing in my mind, I mean, excuse me, on my iPod, since then. "Dark Road" grew on me, but "Sing," "Womankind," and "Coloured Bedspread" are doing for me what the best of 80s Eurythmics and Diva-era Annie did, which is to say... some of my personal favorite music ever. Some of it's synth-y, some of it's just full-on diva-esque singing by one of the era's best voices, some of it's maybe just a bit too AOR for my taste, but still... it's snappy, it's smart, it's got tons of heart, and much of it's even got enough of an edge to make me realize why it was that Annie Lennox made me break my "I hate synthesizers" rule back in the 80s in the first place.

Lots and lots of beauty here. Give it a listen.