With this latest album, Cockburn intensifies his sense of spiritual reflection and introspection. ‘O Sun O Moon’ is perhaps surprisingly optimistic given all that is currently going on in the world.

U2’s long-awaited album, Songs of Experience, is testimony to the band’s unrelenting optimism. Musically it provides a consistently stronger set of songs than the previous two albums. The band’s Christian faith is evident in the lyrics but perhaps some deeper insights into how faith can make things better would be welcome.