Tightrope walker

"Inspired by Twin Towers traverser Philippe Petit, Tightrope Walker is a suitably courageous attempt to deal with precipitous emotions in risky musical settings. The result is a compelling set of songs in which Rachael Yamagata stretches her cabaret-croon style in diverse directions ... the breadth of moods conjured enables Yamagata to slip from devastation to nostalgia to devotion in successive songs, with no grinding of gears".

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"Without question, Yamagata's most intimate, and personal album to date, 'Money Fame Thunder' closes the set by neatly analogising traversing the travails of life with tightrope walking. It's nice to see an artist take a few chances without taking a tumble".

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