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On his third album (including a hard-to-find, self-pressed debut), Brett Dennen sings 11 songs about love and theft: love for a person that doesn't quite turn out right and theft of basic rights over the last eight years. Even in the jubilant Afrobeat single "Make You Crazy" (featuring Femi Kuti) or the bouncy Grateful Dead groove of whimsical opener "San Francisco," Dennen carries a message of resistance against both the personal and political entanglements that keep people handcuffed from happiness. In the gracefully melodic "Heaven," he sings in his smooth, high-register of a place without "color lines or castes or classes"; on two love songs, including the melodically rich fever dream of "Wrong About Me," he manages to throw a long, timely elbow at the gut of Wall Street. His toolbox includes great command of similes and metaphor: the line "Like a drunk in a dive bar in the early afternoon," effortlessly enhances the mood of intimacy in "Closer to You." The album, more robust than 2006's So Much More, was produced by John Alagia, who has recorded John Mayer (for whom Dennen opened on tour last summer), Jason Mraz and Dave Matthews. It's pretty and it's mainstream, but Dennen occupies a meritorious kind of pop-rock middle, committing his songs not just to the girl of his dreams, but to the dashed dreams of the downtrodden.
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| 01. |  |
San Francisco |
3:50 |  |
| 02. | |
Make You Crazy |
3:36 | |
| 03. | |
Heaven |
4:01 | |
| 04. | |
Closer To You |
3:36 | |
| 05. | |
Wrong About Me |
4:30 | |
| 06. | |
So Far From Me |
4:06 | |
| 07. | |
When She's Gone |
3:38 | |
| 08. | |
World Keeps Turning |
2:59 | |
| 09. | |
Who Do You Think You Are? |
4:05 | |
| 10. | |
Follow Your Heart |
3:09 | |
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Ain't Gonna Lose You |
4:51 | |
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