Melanie - Crazy Love (2002/2024)

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Artist:
Title: Crazy Love
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Two Story Records
Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:44
Total Size: 174 / 459 MB

Tracklist:

1. And We Fall (2024 Remaster) (4:01)
2. The Punishment Fits The Crime (2024 Remaster) (4:10)
3. Center Of The Circle (2024 Remaster) (3:06)
4. Smile (2024 Remaster) (4:46)
5. Till They All Get Home (2024 Remaster) (4:00)
6. Right About Now (2024 Remaster) (3:27)
7. It Hurts When Love Is Deep (2024 Remaster) (4:02)
8. Leftover Emotions (2024 Remaster) (4:20)
9. You Can Find Anything Here (2024 Remaster) (3:38)
10. Brand New Key (Re-Recorded - 2024 Remaster) (2:27)
11. Working Legend (2024 Remaster) (3:18)
12. Never Had A Clue (2024 Remaster) (4:45)
13. You Don't Know Me (2024 Remaster) (5:23)
14. This House (Bonus Track) (4:05)
15. The Wonderer (Bonus Track) (2:48)
16. I Can Do This... (Bonus Track) (1:17)
17. Prone To Wander (Bonus Track) (4:17)
18. Come Away Come Go (Bonus Track) (3:56)
19. Poet Is King (Bonus Track) (4:08)
20. Last Call (Bonus Track) (4:02)

Review by Robert L. Doerschuk
Long after most '60s icons have tarnished or dropped from sight, Melanie shows undimmed allegiance on Crazy Love to the utopianism that nourished the music of that era. Her voice projects somewhat fractured yet gloriously expressive power throughout this album, even as she lampoons herself on a loony remake of "Brand New Key." She resorts to spoken monologues where her message apparently feels especially urgent, but whether admonishing listeners to "make a little difference" over a rousing gospel outro on "Till They All Get Home," delivering a somewhat indulgent self-analysis on "I Can Do This...," or imitating a snooty Bohemian suspicious of people who, as the song title says, simply "Smile," her idealism proves disarming again and again. Melanie's new songs are solidly crafted and deftly performed by a band in which her son, Beau Jarred Schekeryk, shows an astonishing flamenco-like virtuosity. At times his pyrotechnics feel a little extraneous, but because he restricts himself to acoustic guitar they never overwhelm the arrangement. On balance, Crazy Love, with its gushy emotion, goofy humor, and exuberant vocals, illuminates Melanie as an artist of integrity, whose occasional interpretive excesses only make her more endearing.


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