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Lynn Miles: "Unravel" |
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True North Records
The fourth album from Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Lynn Miles is filled
with songs of heartbreak and loss. A quick glance at the track listing,
with song titles like "You're Not Coming Back", "Over You", and "I Give
Up", will tell you that. Yet, through it all, she manages to make being
melancholy seem like a good thing.
Produced by long time collaborator Ian Lefeuvre, Unravel features at
least one prime candidate for commercial radio: "Undertow". It's melodic
and beautiful, all the things that should catch the ear of the general
public. But the real highlight of the album is the title track, with it's
recorded live feeling and singalong chorus: "You can read a lot of books,
it don't make you smart/Kiss a lot of fools,
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don't mean you got a
heart/Walk a million miles, don't mean that you travelled/Make a perfect
plan and see it all unravel."
You're Not Coming Back" is a bleak yet powerful song, describing the
change from autumn to winter, from happiness to a broken heart. "Brave
Parade" is a tribute to those who fall in love despite adversity and
overwhelming odds, about people "who know that all the money's probably
spent/Every deadline came and went/Who know that love is not a game/That
life is equal joy and pain." She even throws a dose of reality into the
Wizard of Oz with the final track on the album, "Surrender Dorothy".
The arrangements are stripped down to the essentials and Miles' lyrics
are simple, yet strong. This is an album for people "who know that sad
songs matter most".
By Lynn Bornath, CanEHdian.com
Official Website: http://www.lynnmiles.com/
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