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Review: Sport is an artist who wears his heart and his influences on his sleeve, and nowhere is this fact more evident than on his latest release "Uncle." A moving tribute to his lost nephew, killed in the line of duty in the WTC on 9/11, the album is neither a melancholy, maudlin affair, nor is it some uplifting "my heart will go on" BS. The magic of "Uncle" is that Sport has the unique lyrical ability to wallow in the misery that is the human condition and still keep a twinkle in his eye. The music is at once rooted in the traditional and wildly experimental, which adds a certain playfulness to album. The liner notes state the album was recorded to make something his nephew would have enjoyed, and there are a fair amount of lighter tracks, but Sport is at his best when his life is at its worst, and his heartbreak has produced a truly moving collection.
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