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• Artist: Liam Singer
• Album: The Empty Heart Of The Chameleon
• Label: Tell-All
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2005-05-03

This quick listen (the longest of the twelve songs clocks in a little over 4 minutes, and most are under two) manages to raise quite a few strong emotions in the time allowed for it to effect you. Ranging from Beatlesque pop harmonies to almost modern compositional piano, Portland-ite Liam Singer has created a moving little record, each short tune going right for the emotional throat, quietly but confidently. If John Cage had played piano on Plastic Ono Band, it might have had this kind of feel.
Yet the melancholy of "the last", "Water rushing at you" or "between my lips, which did sing"-with some EE Cummings lines in there-is not oppressive, or even depressing; the sadness is just too damned beautiful to make you wallow in mopery.
Watch Liam Singer. He makes music the old fashioned way: creating new sounds that seem like they've been around forever.

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