Prompted by Adele’s praise of Sinead O’Connor in her recent Out magazine interview, I went over to O’Connor’s website, where I happily discovered that the singer-songwriter is readying a new album. Home is scheduled for release on September 5, with plans for a single to precede it.

According to O’Connor’s manager, Fachtna O’Ceallaigh, there’s been a “fantastic reaction from everyone to the material they have heard, with comments such as ‘This is the sinead we love’ and ‘What a comeback’ being thrown around.” Even better, some of the tracks on Home will also appear in remixed form. “As you all know,” O’Ceallaigh writes, “from the earliest days in her career with the 12″ remix of ‘I Want Your (Hands On Me),’ featuring M.C. Lyte, Sinead has had a long and exciting ‘tradition’ of collaborations and remixes and so on.” Classic-sounding material and remixes? Consider my interest in Home completely piqued.

But the good news isn’t all written. Three songs slated to appear on Home have been posted on O’Connor website. “Reason With Me” and “Very Far From Home (Soul Style)” are both described as demos. Take a listen below — looks like someone’s still using MySpace:
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While the release of Home is several months away, the liner notes were written by O’Connor’s brother, Joseph, to whom the album is dedicated, back in February. He powerfully describes his sister’s voice, her musical heroes and influences, and weaves in a passionate defense of his sibling. Here’s a choice excerpt:

her voice is a weapon. voice is a wound. voice is the murmur of water underground. voice is a love-poem wraithing from the page. voice is a waterfall, RIGHTEOUS with rage. a balm from gilead; a bomb made of sound; a sigh to a scream for the whole world round and a lullaby, too, and a blues from the kips, and a prayer with a safety-pin stuck through its lips. she wilde, beguiled, she keats, she yeats, she whistlin past the graveyard’s moss-covered gates. here mahalia jackson, there sweet etta james, francis street callas, she the vampyah slayah, for babylon rule by the fear and the doom; voice say ‘NO.’ we gwan walk from the tomb.

The entirety of her brother Joseph’s liner notes is really worth the read, even if the Irish slang makes it a wee bit tricky to follow in parts.

O’Connor also had nothing but good words to share about Adele, praising her in return. “I am very touched that she cried over ‘Troy’ and also that she knows that singing is not about the notes but the emotions. I am really delighted as I love her equally very much. She is wicked, wicked, wicked, bad, bad, bad!”