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...Imbruglia pop confection. What could Beck do to follow up his inspired, trendsetting hodgepodge? Judging from his modest Mutations, he slacked off, mellowed out and indulged himself rather than delivering another jolt of noise for the twenty-first century. The album is awfully pleasant, even affecting, with the rich twang of slideguitars, the whine of a harmonica and theoccasional exotic instrument imported to shakethings up a little. Beck is nearly as playful asever, but no song on Mutations has theremarkable freshness of Odelay. When a songmakes a musical allusion--like the sitar melody onthe desolate "Nobody's Fault...
...newcomer to Nashville, Moorer writes songs that have an airy, panoramic sound and enough lonesome twang to fill a steel-guitar convention. She also comes with an impressive calling card: her lovely acoustic ballad A Soft Place to Fall was a breakout hit from the soundtrack to last spring's The Horse Whisperer. Moorer's deft songwriting proves she can live up to the advance billing. Classic mid-tempo heartbreakers like Tell Me Baby and Set You Free are her specialty, coaxing a gorgeously plaintive edge from her voice. Moorer may not have the pipes to belt it out like...
Throughout the CD, one is reminded again and again of the amazing quality and ability of Crow's voice. Her vocal cords get quite a work-out, as she sings in multiple "voices" ranging from a throaty cry ("It Don't Hurt") to a light country twang ("Riverwide") to a low, seductive plea ("Anything But Down"), all the time maintaining an intriguing audibility. Once in a while, though, that unpleasant and annoying wail of hers manages to sneak its way in, but it is once in a great while on this...
...full climaxes of the album. "My melting snowman" is a short and eerie instrumental piece featuring slow, distorted carousel music, and "never comin' back" conjures up the freedom of dry Wyoming highways as Prodhumme belts about the open road with a slightly affected yet humorous western twang...
...Indeed, how many of last year's senior proms were perfumed by the sweet mourning of the Goo Dolls' "Iris." featured in City of Angels? "And all I can taste is this moment/And all I can breathe is your life"--lyrics such as these, occasionally punctuated by the sad twang of a mandolin, combined to make "Iris" the Love Song of Summer 1998. Perhaps in an attempt to wring the udders of the cash cow for one last drop, the Goo Dolls included "Iris" in their new album, Dizzy Up the Girl. While other bands might fear that such...