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Mr. A-Z  Hear it Now

RS: 1.5of 5 Stars

2009

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With his acoustic guitar, jazzy scatting vocals and trucker-hat sincerity, Jason Mraz is one folkie star who's unlikely to be acquitted in the Not Such a Hot Idea Trials. His new album, Mr. A-Z, qualifies as cruel and unusual cuteness, the kind of cuteness barrage that forces bystanders to hide under coffeehouse tables as lines like "I'm the wizard of oooh's and aaah's and fa-la-la's" go whizzing by. Mraz sticks to the same hit formula of 2002's Waiting for My Rocket to Come (which produced the single "Remedy"). But he still has trouble singing out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. It's as if Jimmy Fallon and David Gray had a baby, suckled by Edie Brickell and diapered by the Spin Doctors. "Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?" he asks in "Wordplay." Ah, no.

ROB SHEFFIELD

(Posted: Jul 28, 2005)

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