The book of longing

"On Book of Longing, Souza displays yet again, her stark and remarkable originality in works of deceptive simplicity and elegance. The empathy and equanimity she displays with her sidemen is actually the sound of musical and emotional generosity".

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"On this spare and pensive album, Souza sings Cohen's poem "The Book" with gentle irony and sly harmonic shifts, à la Cole Porter. The lyrics are a solipsistic single man's lament ("I'm living on pills/For which I thank God"). But Souza leaves melodrama at the door, and it pays: As the song's imagery wanders toward abstraction, the feeling grows only true".