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Dorothy's Victory
[EMI]
As the first notes of Foolish Ship unfold, instantly evoking This Mortal Coil, it is clear that Bel Canto's references are eternal. Here again, Anneli's Drecker's voice takes us to quiet and pleasant places, where everything seems at once perfectly mastered and yet so natural.
Oscillating between ingenuousness, quietness and pop-like echoes (You Rock my World), Bel Canto settle in a normality of some sort, eradicating the apposite excesses of their previous productions. "Dorothy's Victory" sounds like their most "ordinary" and mainstream release so far
Despite a well-deserved success in North-European countries, Bel Canto never quite made it elsewhere. The commercial potential of this new album should allow them to attract the attention of those who already fell for Björk - a not so remote Icelandic cousin.
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