- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Feb 20, 2007
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If Richard Swift isn't on your radar yet, time to adjust the antenna.
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FilterHis lyrics are alternately introspective and celebratory, melancholy, and the most hopeful words you'll hear in the place--sometimes all in the same song. [#24, p.102]
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MojoVividly of-the-moment, rich in melody and wry optimism. [Mar 2007, p.104]
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UncutIn his own way, Swift is as vivid a newcomer as Joanna Newsom or early Rufus Wainwright. [Mar 2007, p.84]
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Swift makes good on his promise with 10 soulful new songs loaded with heart and smarts.
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Although his rough-around-the-edges production and label affiliation suggest he is a folkie or New Weird American, his songwriting harkens back more to Tin Pan Alley than The Incredible String Band.
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Prepare to lose your heart to him.
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Q MagazineHe might be a man out of time, but his music's timeless. [Mar 2007, p.114]
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Swift's merry melodies and uninhibited sensitivity draw equally on the immaculate piano pop of Carole King's Tapestry and the strummy self-awareness of Jackson Browne's early Asylum Records releases, but it's his noticeable theatricality that sets him apart.
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SpinHypnotic and strangely thrilling. [Feb 2007, p.86]
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UrbSwift is likely to turn some more heads with this one. [Mar 2007, p.101]
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Under The RadarComing across as the alt-rock Randy Newman has its perils, but Swift justifies and even makes palatable such a classification. [#16, p.94]
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While "Dressed Up For The Letdown" is a classy, clever record, it is not one you can imagine yourself revisiting that often.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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ChristopherGMar 21, 2007
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BrettCMar 15, 2007A top ten record for 2007 for sure. Great album.
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HowardJFeb 23, 2007Quite possibly the best record of 2007.