BROAD CANVAS
by Sean
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Mark Berube - "Carnival". Mark Berube's Russian Dolls is the best thing he's ever done - ambitious, uncompromising, the work of a singer-songwriter who's drawing from Serge Gainsbourg, Beck and Sufjan Stevens, not the modest coffee-house set. But "Carnival" is higher-charged than Histoire de Melodie Nelson, less fussy than Illinois, sincerer than Mutations. There's a little of Stereolab and Pinback. There are fireworks and ferris wheels. The song's landscape emerges like a vision at the other end of a tunnel - piece by piece, closer and closer, shadows washed away by bonfires, what is distant becoming near. [buy]
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