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FRANK CIAMPI - Big Top Woman |
It is simple. Push Frank Ciampi to the front of the first part of 2008 as one of the strongest, most exciting releases. Certainly, in my Top 3 the last few weeks that I have been listening to it, "Big Top Woman" has all the elements of being a CD that a large, large majority of Not Lamers are going to embrace and celebrate and really, truly connect to. Wondermints, ELO, 10cc, cool, good and early Paul McCartney and whole lot more! Stunning arrangements ballast the power of each and ever song here. This is the point where I have to tell you stop reading and just go down below these words and *just listen*! "The operative sound is piano-based power pop, but with a Brian Wilson influence; you might almost say it`s Ben Folds meets The Wondermints. The three oustanding tracks that I blogged about earlier are all here, in the 7-8-9 slots, but the new stuff meets or exceeds the quality of those. The horns and time shifts in "Little Girl" are worth the price of admission alone; "Madeline Maybe" will stick in your head - no maybes about it; "Waiting For Someone" would have fit in nicely on Smile (yes, that Smile), while "The Miss Jenny" is like the middle eight of McCartney`s "Uncle Albert and Admiral Halsey" taken to full song-length. There isn`t a bad track here to be found, and Ciampi has gotten his disc in just in time to make the big list coming out next week."-AbsolutePowerPOpBlog. MASSIVELY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, no doubt!
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