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by Thomas Martin
March 2, 2006
Danielle Tibedo and Cregan Montague present love me like the
roses, an
eleven song record full of warm memories and lovelorn evenings. A heavy
sense of escapism lines the record and invokes a deep sense of traveling
desperation.
Tibedo and Montague tones slide into one another beautifully. Not since
the Jayhawks have I heard two vocal tones work together so well. The
airy, loose production is a bit more than adult contemporary. There is a
fair amount of edge to the minimalist instrumentaion. Most of that comes
from the crafty arrangement. Rising action and climax do everything they
should do at the right time. DivineMAGgees can talk about beauty or they
just talk beautifully.
What we have here is what I like to call
"what Sheryl Crow wants to sound like." I hope that doesn't piss any one
off too bad. I just hear the real versions of the stories through
divineMAGgees, not the borrowed accounts. Love me like the roses has the
ability to flicker a bit more than most singer songwriters I've heard
this year. They keep the haunting descriptions alive and play down the
encription.
www.enigmaonline.com
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