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| | Claudine Longet : Love Is Blue - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Claudine Longet's third album continues the middle-of-the-road tendencies of her first two, leading off with an oddly jaunty reinterpretation of "Falling in Love Again," Marlene Dietrich's theme song, whose jaded world-weariness Longet replaces with her own pleasantly insubstantial persona. |
 | | Even better is Longet's take on the Bee Gees standard "Holiday"; Longet's endearingly pitch-poor, lispy vocals are tailor-made for this spooky, unconventional song, which arranger Nick DeCaro gives a suitably off-kilter arrangement featuring a chorus of wordless Longets between the strings and the increasingly florid piano accompaniment. |
 | | Longet's next album, the masterful Colours, would benefit from even more of this gently psychedelic experimentation. |
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