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Pet Shop Boys Reexamine the Human Condition on Evocative, Elegantly Crafted ‘Nonetheless’ | Album Review

May 4, 2024 Mark J. Marraccini
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The duo’s fifteenth studio affair is a wise, wistful and sometimes witty collection of songs that often keeps its eyes on the past and its feet on the dance floor.

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Everything But The Girl Recharge Their Musical Chemistry with ‘Fuse’ | Album Review

April 26, 2023 Mark J. Marraccini

Skillfully constructed, carefully crafted, familiar and fresh all at the same time, ‘Fuse’ finds the duo more in sync, connected, and inspired by each other than ever before.

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LÉON Eloquently Traverses the Fragility and Fortitude of the Heart on Exquisitely Crafted ‘Circles’ | Album Review

March 4, 2022 Mark J. Marraccini

The gifted singer-songwriter’s elegant mix of uptempo and balladic love songs float in their own time and space, unbeholden to today’s confining parameters of what constitutes a pop song for the charts.

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LÉON Unearths the Beauty Inside the Madness of Self-Discovery on ‘Apart’ | Album Review

October 28, 2020 Mark J. Marraccini
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Pivoting between folky chamber pop, wistful piano balladry and low impact synth pop, ‘Apart’ finds LÉON looking back through a twilight hue at a relationship from which she chose to walk away.

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Alanis Morissette Traverses Life’s Vicissitudes with Candor and Compassion on ‘Such Pretty Forks In The Road’ | Album Review

August 7, 2020 Mark J. Marraccini
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A heady mixture of stories and sonics to tangle with, Morissette’s first album since 2012’s ‘Havoc And Bright Lights’ is her most inward-looking and outwardly forthright effort in years.

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Keane’s ‘Cause and Effect’ Eloquently Examines Matters (and Mistakes) of the Heart | Album Review

September 23, 2019 Mark J. Marraccini

The band’s fifth studio affair unfurls as an elegant and adult concept album about the demolition of a romantic relationship and how its rippling wake knocks you off balance.

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Tanya Tucker Breathes New, Radiant & Resilient Life Into Her Musical Legacy with ‘While I’m Livin’’ | Album Review

August 29, 2019 Mark J. Marraccini

The country music matriarch has emerged on her twenty-fifth studio album with equal parts grit and grace. As lovers, searchers and consumers of good music, we are the better for it.

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Carly Rae Jepsen Saves Her Confessions for the Dance Floor on Exultant ‘Dedicated’ | Album Review

May 21, 2019 Mark J. Marraccini
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From beginning to end, ‘Dedicated’ finds Jepsen drilling down to the juicy nuggets of obsession and desperation that drive her—and all of our—emotional highs and lows.

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LÉON Defies Categorization, Delivers Dynamic & Distinctive Self-Titled Debut | Album Review

April 10, 2019 Mark J. Marraccini

When you listen to LÉON’s eponymous debut album from start to finish (headphones recommended), you’ll understand what all the fuss is about.

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