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Record of her career so far into it Hoffs has done it, though, and Someday is an album perfect for not only her fans, but also fans of well-crafted, emotionally true adult pop. It's pretty rare that someone would make the best Has a low-key magic that is made all the more powerful by being such an Uses now and then works like a magic charm. The ballads are nice, too - Hoffs isn't the most expressive singer ever but she can wring some emotion out of simple melodies (with lots of help from Froom's The Place' chugs along happily with a distant horn section punctuating Hoffs' sweet words of love. Is an insistent jangle pop heartbreaker with a lovely chorus, 'This Is 'Picture Me' bops along like a bruised Dusty Springfield song, 'Raining' (a song she first started writing in 1989 with Heartbreaker Mike Campbell) Hoffs and Brassell write easily hummable choruses and punchy little pop songs. Perfectly on an adult-oriented radio station. That's not to say the songs are in any way not completely catchyĪnd filled with hooks they are, and most of the album would fit in

Previous solo work, it doesn't sound like she's desperately looking for a Sounds relaxed and peaceful throughout the album unlike on her Strings, horns, evenĬlarinets fill the spaces around her unassuming melodies and gently Working with Nashville musician Andrew Brassell and producer Mitchell Froom, Hoffs creates an intimate and sweet album that frames her tender vocals with subtle arrangements that trade the jangle of the Banglesįor an autumnally rich chamber pop sound. Surprisingly then, Someday ends up being some of the best music Hoffs has been associated with. Years, it would seem the most one could expect from a Hoffs solo album would be something nice but not much more than that. Judging from what she's been up to over the past 15 The covers albums were nostalgic exercises and the Bangles albums were decent enough the most recent one, 2011's Sweetheart of the Sun,Įven had some moments that nearly captured the feel of the band'sĮarliest recordings. Since the release of her last solo album in 1996, Susanna Hoffs has stayed busy with the re-formed Bangles for two albums and recording two albums of covers with her friend Matthew Sweet.

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