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Jean Carne: You're A Part Of Me (RCA LP/cassette/CD)

Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 5 March 1988

IT'S A SECRET inland sea, this late-nite soul: and Jean Carne's voice is an inlet in that sea, away from the wrong of the world. Flight from care, a langourous drift out off the coast of rational explanation. You've heard all these words before ("Oh, take away these vibrations/Take away the part/Take away the complications/Take away this heart"). You know the terms, the turns, the notes, the rhythms, the dulled gold tension, the relaxed lusts, the lazy resistance. You know what you'll get.

Total word count of piece: 294

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