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- Summary: The Everything But The Girl singer's third solo album was produced by Ewan Pearson.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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| Why Does The Wind? | |
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| Don't waste my time now Don't call me, "Baby" When you don't know if you love me If you're coming or going And don't leave the back door open And... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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Everything but the Girl fans might miss the duo's dancey leanings, but Thorn proves that her voice is enough to transcend genre preferences.
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It feels utterly natural, a continuation of the emotional navigations she's spent her career documenting with characteristic insight and sensitivity.
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Some tracks may dip into generic mid-tempo dancefloor fodder, such as Why Does The Wind, but overall this is up there with some of Thorn's best work since Everything But The Girl.
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Thorn's voice, rich and smooth as the most expensive chocolate truffle, brings each story to genuine life and invests it with heart-snagging emotion.
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Even when the tempo goes up (on a song called “Hormones,” naturally), Love is cocktail-hour ready, but that helps Thorn’s realism go down like a highball.
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Love and Its Opposite is often a careful-sounding album and while that synopsis may not quicken the heart, it gives Thorn’s work an air of professionalism and care.
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Taken individually, each of Love and Its Opposite’s songs is impressive and affecting. Strung together as an album, though, their sulky nature becomes oppressive.
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