The Fall

What's up with The Fall ????
Referring to Norah Jones' latest album here, not Tarsem Singhs' brilliant visual orgasm of a masterpiece movie.

I am so disappointed. Sounds like she has been put through the mainstream-synthpop-overproduced-alienating-dreamy-overfiltered-voice-machine.
What happened to her very personal, intimate sound ?
This album seems lifeless to me. And plain sad, at best, not her usual melancholic-quirky.
I miss her little intakes of breath and her very presence, it sounds like she's been cloned and polished to death.

Hell, I prefer her charming out-of-tune whistling to this.

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