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1995

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Ron Sexsmith's impressive debut is the perfect disc to play just after you've been dumped and the only activity worth contemplating -- besides weeping uncontrollably -- is devouring an entire pint of chocoate Haagen-Daaz ice cream. Like fellow heartbreak kid Jackson Browne, Sexsmith sings his wishful and wistful lyrics in a reedy voice rapt with despair. But the album hardly drowns in a tarpit of doom -- Sexsmith's tunes are expertly and sparely crafted, with a fragile acoustic sensibility that is more pretty than dour. And though any Leonard Cohen song invites pesky suicidal thoughts, Sexsmith's weirdly cheerful cover of "Heart With No Companion" tumbles forward with bouncy, tambourine-driven optimism. Not a Saturday-night-brawl kind of recording; nevert

(Posted: Feb 2, 1998)

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