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Although she's hyped as a piano-playing newcomer fit to follow in Norah Jones' footsteps, Rachael Yamagata sang for years with Chicago funk band Bumpus, and it's this experience that sets her apart from other keyboard-pumping upstarts. Overseen by John Mayer collaborator John Alagia, Happenstance evokes the singer-songwriter atmospherics of Carole King and Elton John. It doesn't sustain their lofty standards -- Yamagata's singsong, sighing vocals are limited, and her melodies are often similarly slight -- but she makes a little stretch a long way. The album saves its finest pleasures for the quiet, emotionally rich second half. On the untitled bonus track, Yamagata bids adieu to a failed love affair with an exquisitely hushed ache.
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Track List
- Be Be Your Love
- Letter Read
- Worn Me Down
- Paper Doll
- I'll Find a Way
- 1963
- Under My Skin
- Meet Me By The Water
- Even So
- I Want You
- Reason Why
- Moments with Oliver
- Quiet
- Ode To...
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