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...know “the real Beyoncé.” But after listening to both discs I’d rather get to know Sasha Fierce. First disc “I am”—complete with orchestral love songs and emotional, echoic ballads??can only be described as continuous. It’s hard to tell where one song ends and another begins. The lack of melodic variation gives rise to one long, epic complaint on the shortcomings of men. The disc is enticing in that the first three songs?...
...genre, and with an impressive act of arrangement, it works well. The record-opener “Girl in the War” puts the mandolin to such use, while catchy “Wolves” follows up with guitar and piano, and “Monster Ballads?? borrows a gospel feel with tasteful organ use. Ritter even allows the lyrics of “Idaho” to exist almost without accompaniment; he sings the soulful melody with just a hint of acoustic guitar. Instead of forcing complicated riffs into the same airspace, Ritter opts...
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