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- Summary: The Tony-winning composer Duncan Sheik returns with a concept album for a musical he hopes to make.
- Record Label: RCA Victor
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop, Alternative
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| Earthbound Starlight | |
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| What are you looking at, what do you see? Is it the truth or a strange fantasy? Whenever you're watching, changing the scene The time is a place,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Sounding like a hybrid of epic, Frames-like angst-rock and unabashedly earnest musical theater, Whisper House is simultaneously more satisfyingly rich in sound than Sheik’s early work and more off-puttingly story-driven.
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Among Sheik's albums this ranks among the best, showcasing his subtle skills and sense of quiet adventure in ways his sometimes fussy earlier records never did.
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The ethereal timbre to Brook's voice fits nicely into the world Sheik's created on Whisper House--a world that never escapes the feeling of being a soundtrack to a film or play you haven't seen, but a world that's worth visiting nonetheless.
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Whisper House just isn’t strong enough to hold up to his previous work. There’s no doubt that a great deal of meticulous work went into the orchestration and songwriting of the album, but the end result isn’t a coherent whole.
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