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  • Summary: Available for several years on his own website, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Gary Jules' second album finally got a major-label release in 2004 thanks to the unexpected success of one of its tracks--a cover of Tears For Fears' "Mad World"--that appeared on the Donnie Darko soundtrack.
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  1. Gracious and redemptive, it is a rapt, quiescent masterwork.
  2. 80
    Gorgeously warm, forlorn and wounded. [Mar 2004, p.95]
  3. There's a gnawing gutlessness at work here, which ultimately sells him short. [Feb 2004, p.101]
  4. 60
    He has a dusky, intimate voice and a weakness for overwrought lyrics. [May 2004, p.126]

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  1. EricC
    9
    If you're looking for more of Mad World-type bleakness, you'll be disapointed. Otherwise, this is great cd that anyone who considers themselves a Cat Stevens or Dylan fan should seek out. There's a reason he's so popular across the Atlantic. Expand