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Free Music Notes for Real LifeFree Music Review: Beautiful music Hit: 5 StarsThis album is excellent. The instrumentals are beautiful and uncluttered, and Joan's voice is absolutely arresting. The lyrics are engaging, heartfelt, and honest. "Anyone" is my current favorite.
Most of the music is pretty mellow, but some tunes rock, and some of the tunes on the B side rock too. I couldn't begin to hazard a genre; I just know that I love it!
Free Music Review: album of 2007 Hit: 5 Starsyou will NOT be sorry you bought this CD. amazing is the only word i can use to describe. best tracks: "the ride", "anyone", "eternal flame"...not one bad song on the album, those are just my faves. her layered harmonies, poignant lyrics, delicate voice and brilliant instrumentation will leave you longing to hear this over and over and over and over...you get the point. just do as you are told: BUY THIS ALBUM NOW!
Free Music Review: Great Music Hit: 5 StarsIf you like CDs by people such as Roisin Murphy, Imogen Heap, Cat Power, then you'll probably end up declaring this one of your favourite CDs of 2007.
Free Music Review: REAL LIFE Hit: 5 StarsReal Life is the kind of album that makes you think and wonder about it days after the last time you heard it, and makes you kick yourself when you want to hear it right now all the way through and you can't find the cd in your car, or when you realize you haven't uploaded it onto your ipod yet (what?! impossible!). . . There isn't an artist that sounds close, or even close enough to stand in for joan's honest and effortless voice soaring through a mood, liberated from any pedestrian linear storytelling, intimate and timeless. Real Life is the kind of album that you have to listen to at least twice, and after that, it's like a great movie that keeps giving you something new every time you watch it. I thought I'd make comparisons: she's like Laura Nyro-cross-PJHarvey-cross-Chrissy Hines-cross-Nick Drake (the Pink Moon album) -- but it feels lame to me, probably because none of it is really true. It's an either-you-get-it-or-you-don't album -- if you're reading this, get it :).
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