FLARE
Hung (Le Grand Magistery)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This record is so close to being really wonderful that it just drives me crazy that it isn't. The instrumentation is clever and interesting, with violins and cellos and accordions and piano and chimes and other neat things, and the lyrics are brilliant and sarcastic and biting and extremely self-deprecating, but for some reason, the finished product falls a little flat. I think it's because it comes off too mellow and measured where it should be more sincere and out-of-control - I could be off-base here, but I think it's a true feeling of sincerity that this lacks. Like I said, it's just short of being absolutely wonderful, but it falls just short.

© 2003 - Holly Day