Black the Sun
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Elliot Smith's 1998 masterpiece XO was always going to be the kind of album that inspired attempts at emulation. Young Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd is among the first pursuers on the trail, and though his uncanny vocal similarity to Peter Gabriel is rather off-putting, for the most part he acquits himself adequately. Lloyd's problem, inevitably, is that he is taking his wares to a marketplace in which Elliot Smith albums are already freely available. While Lloyd does possess a similar way with the endearingly lo-fi arrangement and the opaque rueful lyric on Black The Sun, the sorry truth is that while Lloyd is playing
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Manufacturer: Emi
Release date: 11 September 2000
EAN: 0724352084722 UPC: 724352084722
Release date: 11 September 2000
EAN: 0724352084722 UPC: 724352084722
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