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Inara George - An Invitation With Van Dyke Parks
| Latimes | Inara George is the kind of artist who'll never get called experimental, because her music sounds so sweet. Yet she is a risk-taker -- just one whose voice is clear and accessible.
In the past few years, the 34-year-old L.A. native has worked her way through shoegazing folk with the band Merrick, a Joni Mitchell influence on her 2005 solo debut, internationalist pop with the Bird and the Bee, and Andrews Sisters harmonies with the Living Sisters....full text |
| | Ew | | If Inara George's latest is indeed an invitation, per the title, rest assured it won't come as an Evite. The L.A. chanteuse's newest disc floats in a sort of dreamy, creamy wonderland better suited to a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dance sequence than any clumsy modern milieu. An Invitation's light-fantastic orchestration, courtesy of famed songwriter and composer Van Dyke Parks (Brian Wilson's SMiLE, Joanna Newsom's Ys), is equally, delightfully old-fashioned — though George's decidedly contemporary lyrics recall the arch-baroque confessionals of Rufus Wainwright and Fiona Apple. Anachronistic? Perhaps, but enchanting nonetheless....full text |
| | Spin | | "All the words sound so accidental," sings Inara George, as if she's critiquing her own digressive lyrics. But that's beside the point: Although the daughter of Little Feat's late leader Lowell George charms with a crisp, vibrato-less chirp that suits her airy tunes, the star here is Parks, Brian Wilson's SMiLE collaborator, who surrounds George in a florid orchestral fantasia that flickers like a luscious, precisely gardened flower bed teeming with hidden fauna. If butterflies could dance, this would be their soundtrack....full text |
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