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- Record Label: Everloving
- Release Date: Aug 12, 2008
- Summary: Inara George Works pairs up with the famous arranger Van Dyke Parkson on her latest album inspired by Frank Sinatra and Richard Sherman.
- Record Label: Everloving
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
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Positive: 8 out of 12
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Mixed: 4 out of 12
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Parks proves an ideal partner for George, who grew up studying Shakespeare and is married to a film director, Jake Kasdan.
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The album's light-fantastic orchestration, courtesy of famed songwriter and composer Parks , is equally delightfully old-fashioned--though George's decidedly contemporary lyrics recall the arch-baroque confessionals of Rufus Wainwright and Fiona Apple. [15 Aug 2008, p.67]
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Although the daughter of Little Feat's late leader Lowell George charms with a crisp, vibrato-less chirp that suits her airy tunes, the star here is Parks, Brian Wilson's SMiLE collaborator, who surrounds George in a florid orchestral fantasia that flickers like a luscious, precisely gardened flower bed teeming with hidden fauna.
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Under The RadarInvitation will surely add to Park's continuing influences in the pop community. [Fall 2008, p.80]
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An Invitation must have been a fun side project, but it may have all the permanence of the summer breeze it captures so perfectly.
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This is an album for Sunday afternoons, for fans of Frank Sinatra and Aaron Copeland, for sophisticates who want music to soothe their minds rather than demand their full attentions.
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The 13 tracks on this sophomore disc can be indistinguishable in their chirpiness, but George's balance of whimsy and a furrowed brow gives the Invitation its lovely charm.
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