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The infectious "I'm Not Fine" is a fine vehicle for the couple's counterpoint harmonies, aired over a piano-driven pulse punctuated with bursts of piercing guitar; and "My God, My God, Pts 1 & 2" is a suitably epic arrangement of piano, horns and chorale. But thereafter, they develop a touch of the trendy vicars, the tone vacillating unhappily between plodding and sententious ("The Strife Is O'er" and Samuel Medley's "I Know That My Redeemer Lives") and irritatingly happy-clappy ("Rice and Beans (But No Beans)" and "God Be with You Til We Meet Again").
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