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99.9 F°
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by Suzanne Vega
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on 9-8-2008.
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This review is from: 99.9 F° (Audio CD)
Machine-driven music was not Suzanne Vega's most enticing musical direction, though the experimentation certainly yielded some pronounced successes and destroyed the notion that Vega was just a guitar-strumming folkie. The often cacophonous arrangements at times intrude: Vega's voice and delivery are ill-equipped to compete with overloud drum machines and bass guitars. "Blood Makes Noise" has an exhilirating sound, but her heavily processed vocals are a take-it-or-leave-it affair, and her singing sounds very strained (hear her struggling for breath when she hits "I'd like to give the information you're asking for"). "In Liverpool", however, achieves a wonderful balance between 99.9 F-era Vega and Solitude Standing-era Vega, a song of great spiritual, melodic and lyrical clarity, recorded with the same industrial/dance leanings used throughout the album, but remaining human enough that Vega shines through. Not a misstep, but a tangential exploration that would result in the harmonious folk/jazz/keyboard hybrid on Nine Objects of Desire.
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