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The Moody BluesSeventh Sojourn LP
The femme fatale theme of the album extends to the cover, on which she wraps her fingers and polished nails around a pistol. Is this gangsta folk? Well, maybe, but the classic Keren Ann sound still abounds on “101,” especially in “All the Beautiful Girls,” an elegiac song about an art widow in the 1970s, looking in at her husband’s world, which is populated by “Ginsberg and Corso.” Like her early work, it evokes Joni Mitchell before the jazz and cigarettes kicked in. But many of the songs have slightly more giddyap than you might expect from Keren Ann, with triplets, syncopation, cha-cha rhythms, even a fembotic dance track for the first single and video, “My Name Is Trouble.” With the pageboy cut and wide, glam eyes, both the look and the sound are Suzanne Vega as Bond girl...http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/magazine/mag-13kerenann-t.html?ref=music