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Title: give it time: its worth the wait
Review: The pleasures of this album, beyond the opening track, reveal themselves very slowly. The songs are densely written and the catchiest of them, again excepting the opener, are arranged to show off their depths rather than their hooks. Others have gone in detail into the specifics of the songs so I will simply offer this analogy. Given time, this album will open up like a bottle of great French wine given time to breath, which, even when it is ready to drink, is not all berry and oak. Its flavors have a complexity and depth and richness that can only come from a rich past and years of cultivation. I suppose in this analogy Paul might be a great old vineyard allowed to go to pot, finally given the careful cultivation its soil and vines and tradition deserve, but I should probably just stop.On further reflection, I might reconsider this album up to 5 stars but for now, as it plays for its fifth time, I'm sticking with 4.
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