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- Summary: The Canadian singer-songwriter from the folk trio Be Good Tanyas includes soul music influences on her first solo album.
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- Record Label: Nettwerk Productions
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Folk, Neo-Traditional Folk
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| Your breath is sweet, your eyes are like Two jewels in the night Your back is straight, your hair is smooth On the pillow where you lie But I don't... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Obadiah is the archetypal sleeper: Its burnished songs--an unlikely marriage of plainspoken folk and blue-eyed-soul--wash over you on a cursory listen, start to percolate the second time around, and finally burrow deep into your brain.
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The tempos remain rigorously uniform across these 13 tracks, as though quickening the pace might change the genre or break the spell. It makes for a warmly moody, albeit strangely static album.
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In the moving disc closer "Mimi Song," she asks her listener to "tell them about me when I'm gone" and to "remember me." With an alluring album such as this one, that request shouldn't be hard to do.
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She phrases intuitively, waiting on a word and then drawing it out, and turns good lyrics to oatmeal, adding strange new colors to vowels, making whole syllables vanish.
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As a debut solo record Obadiah is quite impressive, but only if you're in the mood the album wants you to be in.
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There's a laid-back, late-night vibe maintained throughout Obadiah, as Ford unleashes her moody croon over slow to midtempo tunes colored by piano, organ, and Tanyas member Trish Klein's guitar work and powered by mellow but funky, slow-rolling grooves.
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UncutFord's transporting voice is let down by tunes that are anything but. [Aug 2010, p.92]
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