Always Be

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Amazon.com With slightly hoarse, easy-over-the-vowels vocals resembling Elvis Costello's Almost Blue-period crooning, Jeffrey Gaines delivers declarative musings on love gone wrong. Clean sonic backgrounds stick with acoustic guitar and genteel percussion in the best adult-contemporary tradition, though occasionally overdriven amps ("Shake It Off") or a simple, creepy minor lick ("Fall You Fool") lend uncharacteristic color. Unfortunately, Costello covers that same ground with much more mesmerizing convolution; on Always Be, if a lyric line ends in "know," you can successfully leap to the conclusion that a "go" is coming up, and probably predict most of the words in between. Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" (enclosed twice), both boasting superior words, demonstrate the singer's earnest and warm, though not earth-shattering, melodic command. --Andrew Hamlin
ASIN: B00005AVRC
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