DANI SICILIANO
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Reviewed by Holly Day

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Wow, this is probably the most girly-sounding record I've truly enjoyed for a while! Dani Siciliano's got one of these girly songstress voices, like Carly Simon, kind of, all rich and sweet-sounding and very feminine. I don't usually like singers like that, but the difference with this album is that the musical arrangements, and the vocal arrangements themselves, are just so beautifully done. Siciliano overdubs her voice numerous times on some songs so that her voice is the true instrumentation, while on other tracks - like on her stand-out, horn-heavy jazz cover of Nirvana's "Come As You Are" - her heavy, breathy voice is so sparsely accompanied by anything that it's hard to concentrate on anything else on the room while she's singing. It reminds me a lot of Portishead and Bjork as well as the aforementioned Carly Simon, and definitely worth picking up, even if you don't like chick singers.

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