St. Petersburg Times September 23, 1994, Friday, City Edition Sinead O'Connor: Universal Mother - Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI. "(I)t should really be listened to in sequence as an album, rather than as single tracks," O'Connor asks of listeners in the liner notes to her ambitious if uneven new set, and the advice is sound. O'Connor has made, via the 14 tracks here, a broad thematic statement about pain, grief, love, and redemption, and has swaddled that statement in a musical soundscape, at once delicate and lush, that evokes the dreamy landscape of a lilting Irish lullaby.