The Straits Times
June 17, 2000

Sinead O'Connor 
FAITH AND COURAGE

IN ANOTHER epoch, Sinead O'Connor would have been a pagan goddess, a
feral Blair Witch preying on goody-two-shoes domesticity. 

Instead, on the cusp of the millennium, she has been branded a nutty
intransigent with a talent for career combustion. 

With Faith And Courage, she soldiers on. Reinventing herself as a sexy,
strong and god-fearing feminist, the Irish maverick has made a luminous
pop album lit by fire
and clear-eyed calmness. 

But hey, she still has a lot of work to do, as the newly-ordained archdeacon
snarls in the raging first single, No Man's Woman. 

From the reggae-dub religious anthem, The Lamb's Book Of Life, to the
mutant punk-rocker, Daddy I'm Fine, O'Connor takes off on her heroic crusade
into the Great Unknown.

Yeow Kai Chai