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The Slow Wonder
Is it my imagination or are the Canadians
slowly becoming the new Brits? For years we have laughed at
our neighbors to the North, asking them how many words they
have for the word "snow" and wondering how they could
love a sport that requires long underwear and a penchant for
sweaty mullets. Now they have actually come up with some really
good music--this album being one its truly shining stars. As
the main songwriter for the fine imports, The
New Pornographers, Newman has certainly stuck with their
progressive-retro sound here, but mixed in a more eclectic sound.
Somewhere between The Shins and
early Tobin Sprout solo work,
Newman creates a nostalgia and warm sound with his music that
wraps you up like a good blanket, but still makes you wonder
why more people can't write great pop music like this. There's
just a relaxed cool to this album. It doesn't try too hard to
be hip; it just is. We all know how horribly wrong solo albums
can go, but Newman has certainly found his voice here, and it's
the voice of the sunny 60's wrapped in the gauze of the melancholy
of the late nineties, with a totally modern, 2004 slant. |
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