Become You [Exclusive Amazon.com Version with Bonus Disc] [Limited Edition]
Three years after the experimental and not-always-successfulCome on Now Social, the  Indigo Girls return to a more traditional framework with the acoustic-basedBecome You. A deft melding of folk, rock, and pop--and laced with Latin  and soul around the edges--Become Yougets to the heart of whatAmy Ray(the rocking  half) and Emily Saliers (the gentler half) do best: chronicle the complexities  of love and socio-sexual politics from a feminist viewpoint. While the seductive  and full-bodied melodies leave plenty of expanse for the duo's gauzy,  hand-in-glove harmonies, the majority of the repertoire here carries an undercurrent of  dissatisfaction and anxiety, whether about the outcome of a rocky love affair  ("Moment of Forgiveness"), the still-extant racism in the South ("Become You"),  or the ultimate fate of the Mexican women who fight for change with the  Zapatistas ("Nuevas Senoritas"). Poignant, thought provoking, and beautifully  crafted, with rapt attention to the interplay of instruments as well as voices,Become Youfinds Ray and Saliers back in top form and as relevant in 2002  as at the start of their 15-year career.--Alanna Nash