Messy mix.The Color and the Light * Jennifer O'Connor * Red Panda Records Jennifer O'Connor might be a talented performer and songwriter. Her press clips from The Village Voice and The Times of London are glowing, and there are interesting flashes on The Color and the Light. But whatever O'Connor has to offer is buried deep down beneath the producer Al Weatherhead's muddy arrangements. He has opted for a Liz Phair-flaired session, with the vocals and instruments battling for supremacy SUPREMACY. Sovereign dominion, authority, and preeminence; the highest state. In the United States, the supremacy resides in the people, and is exercises by their constitutional representatives, the president and congress. Vide Sovereignty. , but the concoction doesn't work. Vocals are mixed so far back that it sounds like a short in the speakers. And while the mood moves from twangy to gritty grit·ty adj. grit·ti·er, grit·ti·est 1. Containing, covered with, or resembling grit. 2. Showing resolution and fortitude; plucky: a gritty decision. to straightforward, powerful rock, and while O'Connor's sandpaper sandpaper, abrasive originally made by gluing grains of sand to heavy paper sheets. Today sandpaper is made primarily with quartz, aluminum oxide, or silicon carbide grains, and is graded according to the size of the grains. vocals try to lure lure the skin-covered object which runs on a monorail on a Greyhound racing track and which the dogs are schooled to chase. The lure must be kept 30 to 40 ft ahead of the leading dog so that the field is stretched out. you in, all that work trying to pick out the words ends only in frustration and disappointment in the uninspired instrumentations. |
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