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MADELEINE PEYROUX - Half The Perfect World
| LA Daily News | | The 32-year-old singer has been compared favorably to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday because of surface similarities in her voice. But rather than grit and angst, there's a dreamy, wistful quality to Peyroux's new album, which at times is even sunny (sort of the glass-half-full interpretation). Of the 12 songs, four are originals she co-wrote — one ("I'm All Right") with Steely Dan's Walter Becker and her producer Larry Klein, the others with Jesse Harris (a Norah Jones collaborator). ...full text |
| | Guardian | | Half the Perfect World (it's a Leonard Cohen song) stays close to last year's Peyroux hit Careless Love - smokily underplayed backings mixing sly organ licks and soft rhythm guitar for the singer's affecting, drifting-blossom voice. But the Lee Konitz-like alto saxophonist Gary Foster and breathily romantic trumpeter Till Bronner add a stronger jazz presence here and there, and Peyroux's often-overlooked enthusiasm for Louis Armstrong's phrasing (though naturally, not his sound) is audible too....full text |
| | MusicOMH.com | | For somebody with such an apparently tortured public image, Madeleine Peyroux certainly sounds relaxed. Whereas her every TV appearance is conducted with the air of one who'd rather be cutting her toenails with a rusty scythe, and intervals between albums are punctuated with mysterious disappearances, every note of Half The Perfect World oozes an effortless, languid charm....full text |
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