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Combining a strong, Jazzy vocal style with often frank lyrical content recounting tales of love and loss, Winehouse is a truly talented songwriter with a good ear for melody, making this album an essential purchase.
Absent are the scrunchy chords and rhythmic temper-tantrums that made Broad Shoulders, the Gainesville band's first full-length, so mesmerizing. In their stead, Mediumship favors dynamics and depth and space to explore.