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Most of Lisa Stansfield is a slow-building, slow-burning pleasure. This is soul lite, harking back to the '70s, to Barry White, Roberta Flack and Diana Ross. The song Never, Never Gonna Give You Up evokes the throb of disco, but in a comely, cooing, classic way; Honest is a soul-baring ballad with an intimate, unadorned sound that leaves Stansfield's voice free to shimmer in the foreground; and I Cried My Last Tear, Last Night is an unabashed I-won't-get-stepped-on-in-relationships call to arms that makes its case passionately but not gratingly...
...amazed archaeologists 2,400 years later. Then the Hong Kong Philharmonic steals in with a simple yet radiant tune in D major--the key of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--and a children's choir begins to sing, accompanied by the soft throb of Chinese drums pounding out an African-flavored beat...
...part, ambersunshower sings songs that are as unconventional as her name. On Walter T. Smith (named after her late grandfather) her songs bounce, throb and skip along, playful and carefree; what gives them substance is her unusual blend of ethereal vocals, folky acoustic guitar and forceful hip-hop percussion. The most engaging number is the title track, a flitty number about death that's charmingly blithe in the face of sorrow...
...Daniels' Henry V is Shakespeare for the nineties--slick, sexy, and kicked into overdrive by the exhilarating energy of Bill Camp's Henry. The stage seems to throb with the visual intensity of its blood-red set. The theater pulses with the rhythms of the language and the power-lust of the characters...
This effect is strengthened by other unexpected aspects of the album--such as the Edge's turn as lead vocalist on the first track of the album, "Numb." Its eerie mantra-like lyrics throb hypnotically and, for U2 at any rate, somewhat oddly...