In contrast to Deborah, with her flat stomach, her stringy blond hair and her quavery screech of a voice ( she can't even roll an r ! ), we have Flor, all soft curves and unshakable principles tied together in a hot-blooded, earthy voluptuousness somewhere between Monica Bellucci and Anna Magnani.
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Aside from Kline singing " What Is This Thing Called Love ? " in Porter's quavery whisper, the only survivors are Vivian Green, who gets the sense of " Love for Sale " if not the sadness, and Natalie Cole, who has been around long enough to know what to do with " Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye ."
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Paul Lester of " The Guardian " declared Mitchell to be New Band of the Day as " there's more to [ her ] than an ability to hold a note, although she does that very well indeed, even if her voice is perhaps too idiosyncratic for one of those reality programmes, a little too quavery, kooky and girly ".
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David Fricke of " Rolling Stone " rated the album four out of five stars, dubbing it " a sumptuous immersion in Seventies California folk pop . . . the most immediately charming album he has ever made . " In addition, Pareles writes that Oberst's " empathy, his unassumingly natural melodies, the quavery sincerity in his voice, the plain-spoken but telling lyrics that he s now careful to deliver clearly . " Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars, calling it " a conscious step toward maturation, both in its studio sculpture-Oberst has never spent so much time laboring over arrangements as he does here-and compositional construction ."
