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 Caught in the Carousel "There will be music despite everything"
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Adrina Thorpe
Halflight and Shadows
Independent
"Flawed I am and flawed I will remain/Broken since the day the package opened," sings Adrina Thorpe on her sophomore effort Halflight And Shadows. Concerned with everything from the mistakes we make to the way we change our minds in the middle of the night, Thorpe's new collection is stirring stuff. Armed with a voice that is positively exquisite, Thorpe makes her emotional precision look easy. There are sweeping pop numbers ("Impossible Dream," "Everything Changes") gorgeous ballads (the cello-powered "Driving" and "Give You My Love") and breezy synth-fueled tracks ("Midnight"). A classically trained musician, Thorpe's instrumentations are sophisticated and her voice deserves to be uttered in the same sentence as Sarah McLachlan. Elsewhere, "Seed" is a crushing meditation about love; "Kiss The Day" is breezy and devastating and "Heal" aches beautifully away. "Find the way we're meant to be," Thorpe sings. Hard not to imagine a line around the block of gentleman with extensive blueprints.
—Alex Green
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