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Title: Arias
Review: David Byrne started his career reciting lyrics in a new wave declamatory style; over the years, he's learned to sing, and proves it in this CD of emotionally intense arias. Some of the arias are even written by Bizet and Verdi. It's worth the price of the CD just to hear him and Rufus Wainwright sing the duet from "The Pearl Fishers", but this CD is a lot more than that; it's the most unified work Byrne has ever done; each song takes something from all the others, and each is perfectly placed on the CD. It lacks a bit in variety what it gains in unity, and you may get annoyed at Byrne's more fatuous lyrics ("glad"), but he's still one of the best lyric-writers out there, and he's as good as he ever was, good as he ever was.
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