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Airy and nonchalant over the languid tango of "Forever Is A Long Time", she wields emotion through the subtlest shifts of pitch and emphasis, allowing herself just one superb, restrained touch of melisma at the end. Her vocal line is more questing over the hand percussion, guitar arpeggios and subdued, burnt-cream swells of horns that make up "Sunbeams", while her setting of William Blake's "The Clod And The Pebble" profits greatly from the layered harmonies offsetting her deep lead vocal.
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