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These Streets  Hear it Now

RS: 2of 5 Stars

2007

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Paolo Nutini is a twenty-year-old Scotsman who looks like he could be in the Strokes and sings like a cross between Jeff Buckley and some smoothie soulster. A hit in the U.K., his debut is full of warm stuff -- gentle white-soul and acoustic balladry, a couple of breezy rockers -- that stops just shy of totally cheesing out. But Nutini isn't James Blunt, or even Daniel Powter, for that matter. Songs like the falsetto-laden love ode "Million Faces" and the weak-kneed "Autumn" sag in the middle: You get a well-hewn chorus but without much backbone, memorable lyrics or anything else to make them worth more than a few spins. For Nutini's lady fans, These Streets might be something to get hot and bothered about, but most of us could take or leave this useless beauty.

CHRISTIAN HOARD

(Posted: Feb 20, 2007)

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