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| | Telegraph | Arts | Pop CDs of the week: k.d. lang, Brian Wilson and more |
 | | Given her fondness both for covering other people's songs and for theming her albums, it was probably inevitable that Kathy Lang would eventually turn her attention to music from the land of her birth. |
 | | Lang's version of Hallelujah adds nothing to his, or Jeff Buckley's, and low as she goes on Bird on a Wire, you still miss the Cohen growl. |
 | | Smile, the album that Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys (and lyricist Van Dyke Parks) abandoned after months of work, has finally come to fruition, and yes, it is an astonishing, gorgeous, bizarre, byzantine, polyphonic, polyrhythmic, Polynesian piece of music. |
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