CHAPIN-CARPENTER, MARY

On this new album Carpenter's musical palette is much wider than ever before; it is a record full of textures and shapes rather than musical frameworks for lyrics. While the songs are still the most important construct, the manner in which they emerge is far more expansive. And even though there is more steel guitar and fiddle here than on any of her previous recordings, and the record was done in Nash Vegas, it's about as far from a country record — in the modern sense of that word — as can be. Carpenter's cosmopolitanism is certainly a sound for its time.

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