Carole King - Wrap Around Joy
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Artist: Carole KingEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Nightingale
- Change in Mind, Change of Heart
- Jazzman
- You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine
- You're Something New
- We Are All in This Together
- Wrap Around Joy
- You Gentle Me
- My Lovin' Eyes
- Sweet Adonis
- A Night This Side of Dying
- The Best Is Yet to Come
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Free Music Review: Wrap around overproduction
Hit: 3 Stars
I'm at a loss to explain the five star ratings for Wrap Around Joy. I've been pleased with much of Carole King's work, notably Tapestry, which deserves its enormous success. I've also enjoyed some of her lesser-known albums: One To One, Simple Things, Rhymes & Reasons. Those albums weren't wall-to-wall greatness, but had many special songs and qualities.
Wrap Around Joy, by contrast, falls short. Probably it is the songs themselves. I don't find a lot of poetry in them. They certainly sound like Carole King melodies, with Carole King chord progressions, and Carole's singing and keyboard playing do not depart from her other early 1970s albums. Jazzman is a nice, sweet, commercial radio song. I like Nightengale, too. Overall, the lyrics seem a little trite and forced. Maybe this is reinforced by the full production of gospel-like choruses, brass, saxophones, etc. As if being tarted up will mask the tired-sounding underlying material.
It's not bad, by any means, especially for casual listening. However, none of the songs on Wrap Around Joy move me as much as You've Got a Friend, So Far Away, or even the short and snappy Bitter With The Sweet from Rhymes & Reasons. This album sounds like Carole King wrote it to fulfill a contract, to feed the hit-making machine that she had become 35 years ago. Being the professional that she is, she could turn out an album-full of competent compositions. Competent, but not special, not magical as some of her other output. I would advise casual fans to pass on this. At the very least, I would judge it a non-essential part of King's catalog.
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