Title: Excellent But Not Her Best
Product review: This latest album by Brazil's top current female vocalist has its moments and is definitely worth buying, but it's not at the level of her previous efforts such as "Mais" and "Rose And Charcoal." There's too much of a bland pop sound here (sometimes with tepid Beatles influences) and a lack of the strong melodies and daring musical explorations that marked her earlier work. It might help Marisa to find new collaborators, rather than rely so heavily on the likes of Arto Lindsay and Arnaldo Antunes. Still, Marisa is Marisa and still deserves the accolades given to her in the musical guide "The Brazilian Sound," which writes that Marisa has "a voice that can be tender or precise, or slinky and sensuous" and that she is taking "the legacy of the MPB generation into the future."
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