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可以有点东西听了 这张唱片应该可以买来听,不过还是等着先听听第一首single再说。她也是那种烟熏嗓子,很有质感。"Big," Macy Gray Neo-soul weirdo Macy Gray has had to deal with continually diminishing returns since the left-field success of her debut album, 1999's "On How Life Is" and its smash single "I Try." But now, with the market all of a sudden showing the love for similarly eccentric lady soulsters like Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone, the timing is right for a Gray comeback. It's hard to say what the popular response will be, but Gray and her guest stars (including Justin Timberlake, Fergie, Will.i.am and others) have delivered a delightful album, full of sumptuous soul productions and feel-good melodies ably delivered in Gray's inimitable rasp. The froggy-voiced one's alternately wistful and strident lyrics aren't much to write home about, but it doesn't really matter when the music shows such supreme attention to craft and detail. Multilayered backing vocals grace almost every track, contributing counter-melodies in a glorious game of call and response; strings swoop and soar over the shifting rhythms; driving rock riffs peek from out behind the sonic nooks and crannies. "Big" runs out of the steam a little toward the end when the music makes a more blatant bid for radio play, but until then Gray and her collaborators have made an album that recalls the shimmering, luscious work of classic Al Green and Stevie Wonder. Favorite track: "I'm So Glad You're Here" -- David Marchese
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