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Bleeding Heart Graffiti
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Give
credit for this: as her former bandmate
entrenches
in the sound and styles of the mid-'90s on their 2006 effort
,
enthusiastically embraces maturity with her second solo album,
, an eminently tasteful collection of
that's not just an album, but a song cycle tracing the breakup of a relationship.
may be following the pattern that
wrote when she made the leap from
to Gap ads, but
is so tasteful she bypasses the garish mall
of
's
' productions and goes straight for the
.
has more ambition than
, however -- for one,
is hungrier than
, itching for a little bit of her reputation or exposure, so she's written a tighter album, and her performances are infused with a sense of purpose. The record is mannered and tasteful, although the songs aren't bad and
is earnest enough. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine