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Rabbits on the RunVanessa Carlton (Razor & Tie)Ever since hitting in 2002 with lite-radio standards “A Thousand Miles” and “Ordinary Day,” singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton has been casting about for a viable second act to her career. It took her awhile, but she’s gotten there. “Rabbits on the Run” reintroduces her as an indie-pop impressionist with a daydream in her head and her foot on the damper pedal of her piano. A few of the compositions on this brief collection recall her prior existence as a major label moneymaker, but the arrangements are spare and drowned in analog echo. The more straightforward songs (“Carousel,” “Dear California”) sound indebted to Liz Phair’s piano pop experiments, and the denser second half of the disc tiptoes toward misty Aislers Set territory. Carlton’s pastel chalk mark of a voice fits this style better than it ever did when she was in heavy rotation, and she’s sharpened her melodies, too: “London,” in particular, is a jeweled bracelet of notes. Carlton wins extra points for converting R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” — perhaps inadvertently, and perhaps not — into a twee anti-proposal called “I Don’t Want to Be a Bride.”— Tris McCall
Cool review! That's hilarious about the R Kelly allusion, I NEVER would have thought of it, but the choruses sound kinda similar in terms of the melody.
Ugh. "Impressionist"? SHE. SHOULD. RELEASE. BRIDE.
