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Randy Newman - Harps And Angels
| Guardian | | It's nine years since Randy Newman's last album of new songs but, it seems, it's something like a miracle he's produced this one at all. He begins with a bluesy account of a near-death experience, a knee-trembling, heart-pounding episode that leaves him, for the purposes of the song at least, face down on the pavement unexpectedly facing his maker. The sound of harps and angels comes from God's backing singers as the judgment is delivered: 'You ain't been a good man, you ain't been a bad man...' Newman's tone is blacker than ever, both in pitch and comedy; the voice here aspires to the condition of Ray Charles with his evangelical piano....full text |
| | Popmatters | If they guy has something to say, you are guaranteed to hear it. And on Harps and Angels, his first album of new pop songs since 1999’s Bad Love, its surprising he had managed to get all his sentiments out in only 10 songs considering the amount of socio-political turmoil that has gone down in his nine years away from the songwriting spotlight.
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Think about it: When Bad Love was released, America enjoyed a balanced federal budget and surplus of funds, a growing economy fed by an exploding job market in the advent of the Internet’s growth as a palpable career option, a stable environmental landscape and a popular president whose only fatal flaw was his inability to keep his pee-pee in his pants....full text |
| | Billboard | | Randy Newman's shock-and-aw-shucks wit is so joyfully scathing at times on "Harps and Angels" that it's hard to believe it's been nine years since his last album of new material. The sarcastic advice to undocumented immigrants, "Laugh and Be Happy," is cleverly camouflaged by a giddy orchestra arrangement right out of Carl Stalling's Warner Bros. cartoon playbook. "Korean Parents" also features the big orchestra and a comic critique of public education and family responsibility in the Wii era. In "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country," Newman assays the current leaders in his laconic, bluesy drawl, "While they're the worst that we've had/Are hardly the worst this poor world has seen....full text |
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