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- Summary:
- Record Label: Ryko
- Genre(s): Indie, Alternative, Folk
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| It's Gonna Feel Good | |
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| Everytime you add it up are you left wanting Simple things you just can’t seem to keep a hold on 'Cause everyone who said they’d come just left... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 9 out of 12
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Mixed: 3 out of 12
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Wringing beauty from her pain, Moorer creates music that illustrates an age-old truism: Without sorrow, there is no joy.
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With her songwriting on point (she's always had a weakness for obvious, forced rhymes, but her discovery of slant and blank rhyme leave just a couple such offenders intact) and with her distinctive contralto in exquisite form, Moorer's performance here is arguably a career best.
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Though the disc starts off unhurried and threatens to dawdle, the gentle lilt of "Goodbye to the Ground," makes for one of Moorer's most creative efforts to date.
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Moorer strips away the nursery rhymes that sometimes plagued her output and instead focuses on song narratives that break from traditional verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure. The result is richly rewarding.
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Occasionally augmented by beautifully restrained strings, there’s a kind of heat-haze shimmer evident, of a kind that gave Bobbie Gentry’s sound some of its mystery and magic.
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The songs could use more steam, but Crows reveals yet another color in Moorer's palette.
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Crows isn’t without merit—Moorer’s voice is beautiful, and the themes are on an emotional canvas that anyone over 13 with a normal amount of chromosomes has experienced, making her album relatable if not particularly memorable.
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