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...album is further enriched by the tonalities of her voice, occasionally bringing in a slight nasal inflection or dropping to a barely audible whisper. Her guitar style is reminiscent of the late folk-pop great Nick Drake, and her songs evoke dreamy landscapes that will sound familiar to Drake??s fans. She plays slowly and easily, occasionally drifting into the bossa nova territory of Joao Gilberto. She never attempts anything fancy, and she doesn’t need to; she just lets her voice gently carry the songs along. She experiments with vocal loops, and is usually successful...
...Drake??who has managed student events like the Leverett House ’80s Dance and the Junior Class Dance and has served as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club—has focused his extracurricular activities on the arts ever since participating in the Freshman Arts Program...
...western. In this release, Ritter has built solidly from the down home sound of his earlier albums, and he has effectively expanded his lyrical and musical creativity without losing his distinctively homespun sound. His rendition of mellow folk music is reminiscent of early Johnny Cash; his lyrics, like Nick Drake??s, are literate enough to be considered vaguely poetic on their own. However, Ritter has a voice so emotive that these lyrics can become incomprehensible to the casual listener. One of the more Cash-like songs is “Good Man,” a romantic celebration...
...widower Cedric Brown, who cannot control his seven unruly children. In the opening sequence, the children, led by the eldest boy (Simon Brown, the cute kid from “Love Actually”) break into the kitchen, tie the screaming cook (Imelda Staunton, “Vera Drake??) to the table, and wreak utter havoc. Nanny McPhee then mysteriously shows up at their door and uses her magic to whip the brats into shape. When the children refuse to get up in the morning, claiming they have the measles, Nanny McPhee actually gives the children measles...
Racing frantically along like a Nordic horse under the light of Nick Drake??s “Pink Moon,” the opening track, “Slow Moves,” paradoxically features some of the most driving guitar work of the album, pulling the listener into the whispered world of “Veneer” with its repetitive strums and sparkling open chords...