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Title: Wonderful, but ...
Review: The first thing I thought, when I listened to it first: fresh and new. Sophie's music is fresh and new. She sounds much brighter than the latter half of Timbre. The second thought was the reason for the first: Wilderness is not as complex as Timbre. I believe people who love Timbre for it's complexity of the music will not like Wilderness that much.Still, the music of Wilderness is good, really good. It sounds like summer all over the album (and not only at the beginning as Timbre). Beautiful Girl, Surfer Girl and Angel of Darkness are - as I think - the best tracks, concerning the music.Yet she has never written worse lyrics, I think. Too bad.All in all this album leaves a more commercial yet nice (almost wonderful again) image. Just lovely. And remember: Timbre shows that Sophie is probably the best current songwriter/producer/instrumentalist. Let's hope that she produces her next album herself again (with Paul Bushnell playing bass ...)
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