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Annie Lennox, Bare

BMG Crescendo THIS has got to be the Scottish singer8217;s best album yet. Bare, Annie Lennox8217;s third solo album, brims over with sor...

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BMG Crescendo

THIS has got to be the Scottish singer8217;s best album yet.

Bare, Annie Lennox8217;s third solo album, brims over with sorrow and echoes of her broken relationship that keep coming back like waves. But this is the kind of melancholy that makes you want to swing and not drown.

Bare kicks off with A Thousand Beautiful Things, and with the first note you know that Lennox8217;s vocals are in super shape8212;the smoothest Scotch and nothing less.

Then there8217;s Pavement Cracks where the mood dips with lyrics like 8216;8216;Watercolours fade to black8230;all my dreams falling flat.8217;8217; But you know that the former Eurythmics vocalist surpasses herself with each track. Check out the harmonica on this track8212;completely levitates your senses.

The singer8217;s taken on the keys, which rain tears along with her in The Saddest Song. For those jazzy highs, there8217;s The Hurting Time and for the 8217;80s twist, listen to Bitter Pill8212;very Saturday Night Feverish. The album winds up with Oh God, a very basic tune that stands out and lingers on because of Lennox8217;s velvet chords.

Listen to the album8212;this is the stuff that life and life after are made of.

 

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