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- Summary: The second release from Rumer is a covers album of 1970s songs originally sung by such artists as Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, Jimmy Webb, and Townes Van Zandt.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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May 29, 2012Boys Don't Cry works superbly as a companion piece to Seasons.
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Jun 4, 2012These are organic and rich-sounding tracks that frame Rumer's voice in sparkling piano, cinematic bits of strings, rounded horn parts, the twang of the occasional pedal steel guitar, and even a poignant harmonica line.
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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012Each songwriter is honored, and often improved by Rumer's thoughtful readings. [Jul 2012, p.109]
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Aug 14, 2012Yet if Rumer seems to be thinking less critically here, she sounds just as beautiful doing it.
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MojoJul 18, 2012Boys Don't Cry is an unashamed stopgap. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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May 29, 2012It's Tesco shelf filler, it's Father's Day fodder, it's the stack of cover versions every lazy advertising executive is craving now that Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want is all played out.
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Aug 14, 2012Rumer can't conjure the right twinge of dissolution for Neil Young's "A Man Needs a Maid," and her lack of urgency on "Soulsville," by Isaac Hayes, is damning. But elsewhere she slides into the premise as into a tub full of suds, communing with Townes van Zandt's "Flyin' Shoes" and Jimmy Webb's "P. F. Sloan."
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