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Separate Ways
Teddy Thompson List Price: $15.98 Our Price: $12.98
Audio CD - 21 February, 2006
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CD Tracks:
Shine So Bright
I Should Get Up
Everybody Move It
I Wish It Was Over
Separate Ways
Sorry To See Me Go
Altered State
Think Again
That's Enough Out Of You
No Way To Be
You Made It
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| Audio CD Description Biological determinists who find a poster boy in this 30-year-old singer/songwriter will miss just what's exceptional about the talent emerging on his second album. Certainly if your father were Richard Thompson, you'd have him play guitar on your record too. The son, however, has made an album as crafty in pop, lush in roots, and unguarded in emotion as any of his peers--and his sound, while clearly indebted to the acoustic foundations of British folk-rock, is his own fusion of L.A. singer/songwriter sweetness and Wallflowers-esque AOR rock. He's also finding his own way into songwriting, turning quotidian phrases into deadpan wit--"Being happy is easy if you're dumb," he sings on "That's Enough Out of You"--or letting everyday speech reveal a troubled honesty. "I can change my mind but not my blood," he admits on the title track, as strings and scuffling snare build tension. His arrangements leave ample space for his voice, a bell-bright instrument with a deceptive range, to open up his melodies. By layering harmonies from longtime pals Rufus and Martha Wainwright, as well as his mother, Linda Thompson, Teddy gives those melodies the shine, even ambition, of pop outreach--even if, as he sings on the opening track, he wants to "shine so bright it hurts." |
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This is the voice of the decade! Teddy Thompson is an incredible talent! This guy has a voice that is truly unique and his songs are all really good. This CD is one of my favorites. I think his voice blows the doors off both his parents' singing abilities, of course the combination of Richard and Linda produced this amazing guy! Check out this fabulous collection of songs. It will become addicitive.
great music, moving lyrics Teddy Thompson's new album holds a beautiful combination of great folks-rock music and moving lyrics that add more and more substance and interest with every listening. I've listened to this album so many times this week, and every time I discover something new. Highly recommended.
Likeable but not much more People seem quite willing to toss around 5 stars. I'm not. This is a pleasant release, though not as good as his first. It has a perfunctory feel to it, a soul-less and casual flavor that makes it mostly forgettable. There is just nothing that rattles around after the CD spins off. Kind of a glum guy, kind of sad, kind of hopeless, kind of melancholy. Yawn. His vocals come off weaker than elsewhere, his guitar playing seems forced and contrived. There's a sense that songs were not composed to fit a particular lyric, but to be different from their predecessor. Sounds as if Teddy has listened to Elliott Smith and liked what he heard (who doesn't?) and thought he could replicate that sound.
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