Wallflower

"Diana Krall paid tribute to her father on Glad Rag Doll, the 2012 album sourced from his collection of 78-rpm records, and, in a sense, its 2015 successor Wallflower is a companion record of sorts, finding the singer revisiting songs from her childhood. Like many kids of the 20th century, she grew up listening to the radio, which meant she was weaned on the soft rock superhits of the '70s - songs that earned sniffy condescension at the time but nevertheless have turned into modern standards ... By singing these songs as sweet and straight as the dusty old standards on Glad Rag Doll or the bossa nova on 2009's Quiet Nights, she demonstrates how enduring these once-dismissed soft rock tunes really are".

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"Diana Krall paid tribute to her father on Glad Rag Doll, the 2012 album sourced from his collection of 78-rpm records, and, in a sense, its 2015 successor Wallflower is a companion record of sorts, finding the singer revisiting songs from her childhood. Like many kids of the 20th century, she grew up listening to the radio, which meant she was weaned on the soft rock superhits of the '70s - songs that earned sniffy condescension at the time but nevertheless have turned into modern standards ... By singing these songs as sweet and straight as the dusty old standards on Glad Rag Doll or the bossa nova on 2009's Quiet Nights, she demonstrates how enduring these once-dismissed soft rock tunes really are".

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"David Foster, I have to ask you, why make a record featuring the amazing voice of Diana Krall if you are going to use post-production gleam to make her sound less like Diana Krall?".

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"Pladen begynder med The Mamas & The Papas-klassikeren "California Dreamin'", og sangen er både for kendt og pænt poleret i Disney-atmosfære til at fungere som en oplagt døråbner. Eagles-nummeret "Desperado" slipper Krall godt fra, ikke mindst fordi hendes stemme ikke er så ulig Eagles-sanger Don Henleys vokal, og arrangementet er storladent uden at blive for voldsomt. Endnu stærkere står "Superstar", som The Carpenters engang gjorde populær. Der er noget smukt, sårbart og dramatisk over måden, som Diana Krall præsenterer sangen på ... Diana Krall og producer David Foster begår den fejl at forstørre alting - ordene, stilen og stemningen - og så må man ud og undersøge vandspejlet i wc-kummen. Og man bliver der, da Bryan Adams stiller op til duet på "Feels Like Home"".

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"Mens den nu 50-årige canadiske jazzdiva på sit forrige udspil, »Glad Rag Doll«, tog ud på en charmerende og ret så autentisk tur i 1920ernes jazzmusikalske stil og repertoire, så handler det denne gang om en udflugt blandt popmusikalske klassikere, hvor The Mamas & The Papas' udødelige 1965-hit »California Dreamin'« udgør en perfekt ouverture ... Musikken er prominent - med den garvede David Foster som producer, arrangør og keyboardspiller. Og så er det jo gode sange, som sagtens kan tåle et genhør, ja, tilmed en nyfortolkning, hvis de får en dugfrisk og personlig vinkling, uden at de oprindelige kvaliteter går tabt. Her er resultatet en blid strøm af bittersøde ballader, hvilket også vil sige et aldeles helstøbt album".

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"What Krall has always been able to do - and she does it here in spades - is pierce the heart of a song, whether it's from the Great American Songbook, jazz, classic rock, pop, folk or anything else".

"What Krall has always been able to do - and she does it here in spades - is pierce the heart of a song, whether it's from the Great American Songbook, jazz, classic rock, pop, folk or anything else".