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Rachel Sage - The Blistering Sun
- The first song in this album is one of the better recent musical depictions of feeling completely disempowered, simply afloat in existence without any means or purpose. Sage is the star of this show, which seems to be pretty much all about Sage, although ostensibly you’re supposed to be able to empathize with her personal existential crises. For this reason and the fact that the acoustic accompaniment is usually left as an understatement requires that Sage really step up and deliver to keep everything aloft. For the most part she succeeds, provided you’re the type of guy or gal who’s willing to let a talented crooner wax eclectic about anything and everything.
These songs, from “Burning Witch” to “Featherwoman” are pretty heavy with obtuse metaphors and verbal flights of fancy that seem to go nowhere. However, it’s hard to really wag a finger at her for being somewhat dense when she succeeds so well in numbers like “Paperplane.” It’s just about another lovesick song of woe and it’s not the only one on the album, but she is able to keep her language neat while still being universally understandable and the lone metaphor of the paper plane works well as a unifying image. Sometimes things can get a little sickly sweet to the point of just being the kind of warm gooiness you might find as the theme music in a Lifetime or Oxygen TV movie special about an empowered woman moving forward. There’s enough depressing stuff lining the store shelves right now though. If anything, the optimism behind so many of these songs is pretty refreshing.
Reviewer: Alexander Rogers
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Reviewer's Rating: 7.5
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Added: 14-May-2006
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