Angela Bofill: Angie (Arista)
Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 3 May 1979
ANGELA BOFILL'S voice is as cool as sherbet: creamy, delicately colored, mildly flavored. I can understand people finding it refreshing. Listen to the way she picks up a note in 'Under the Moon and over the Sky', the first cut on her debut album, Angie. Bofill holds the note up to the light, savors it, applies an apparently effortless crescendo, wipes it clean and puts it back where she found it. That's class. One thing Bofill doesn't do is clutter up a song with a lot of expression, but listening to her, you get the feeling that those singers who do are a bit tarty, maybe cheap.
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