Rating: 4/5
Review:
A good album from Rumer
There's an awful lot of Bacharach and David on record
(unsurprisingly, as they are one of the truly great songwriting teams of the 20th
Century) and a good deal of it is in
classic recordings by world-class singers.
My question was, do we really need yet another collection? Well, on this evidence, yes we do.
Rumer is a very fine singer with a lovely voice. I haven't always liked her choice of
material, but when she gets it right she produces something really special –
like her sublime version of Cifford T. Ward's Home Thought From Abroad, for
example. The material on this album is,
of course, very good and Rumer sings it all very well, with some real
highlights. The production is generally
pretty restrained, using largely piano and light-touch backing band and
strings, which works very well because it highlights her beautiful voice. She uses it to great effect here, phrasing
and expressing truly beautifully in places (Close To You is wonderful, I think),
an it's unfailingly true to the spirit of the songs.
If I have a reservation, it is that the album can sound just
a tad samey after a while. This may not
bother you, because it's an album to relax to and allow to wash over you with
waves of lovely sound, and it achieves that very well. It's an impressive achievement and, if you
like this style of music, I can recommend it.
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