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| | Guardian | Diana Krall, The Girl in the Other Room |
 | | The Girl in the Other Room sounds like a real Canadian album, and that is not meant in any negative or ironic way. |
 | | The Girl in the Other Room, a swinging waltz, complements Costello's Almost Blue nicely, while Abandoned Masquerade echoes the Tom Waits world we have already visited with the feelgood groove of Temptation. |
 | | After a few listens you realise that Krall is very smartly singing Waits's lyrics with just a slight hint of the writer's rasp and that her guitarist Anthony Wilson (son of big band arranger Gerald Wilson) is making a similarly subtle reference to Marc Ribot's razor-edged style. |
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