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Both familiar and new.
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Cake and Pie suffers from the preciousness and antiseptic production that hampered Loeb in the past.
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Loeb slides into head-scratching silliness, but not often enough to deflate a surprisingly good Cake and Pie.
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As a singer, she remains pleasant and confident, but not so unique or fiery that she burns into the synapses as well as the best storytelling songwriters do.
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She fails to bake any new ideas, leaving us with the same old sad love songs and confused-girl anthems that the Texas torchbearer has always churned out.
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There are tracks on Cake and Pie that suggest Loeb might have been a badass had she realized herself when boofy bangs and women with lightning-bolt guitars were defining pop.
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BlenderThough Loeb can weave a pleasant, elaborate melody, her originality wavers. [Apr/May 2002, p.115]