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Title: Very disappointing
Review: This album is professionally recorded, and Willis has a potentially interesting voice, but the arrangements are staggeringly unimaginative. Every song (every song!) plods along at an ennui-inducing mid-tempo. Willis's original material is not especially imaginative (and that description greatly overvalues the grating title tune), but what really nails this album's failures are her covers. Among these, she has recorded songs written by Nick Drake and Replacements-era Paul Westerberg. At that point in his career, Westerberg was writing hooks to die for, yet Willis's rendering of "They're Blind" is utterly indistinguishable from everything else on the album. And when everything else is as undistinguished and bland and passionless as it is here, it's time to look for a new producer.
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