Bright Sweep
Listening for the fun and the sublime nostalgia, orchestral with sweeping strings re-presenting popular music of the time, honed to the most neutral of their innate musical neutralities - that is, apart from the beauty of melody unencumbered by the burdons of real life. Therefore, opener Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, Bacharach and Hall's upbeat song that reminds of a bike ride rather than shoot-out, is a warming reminder of what used to be even though it wasn't, always, and obviously. The stand-out comic inclusion is Alice's Restaraunt, a song selected for its imagined appeal to a hip audience who really won't have been fooled, even when the kazoo is used to plot out the melody line because this had been an occasional 'hip' instrument itself. Don't get me wrong: I'm loving it on this cold morning warmed by jolly hopefulness.
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