Paul Simon: Rhythm Of The Saints
David Quantick, Vox, November 1990
FOUR YEARS AFTER GRACELAND and Paul Simon returns with another album of Third World inspired pop music, this time songs recorded with Brazilian musicians. Rhythm Of The Saints differs from its predecessor in more ways than one; it isn't just Graceland with maraccas, it's a more laid-back, occasionally almost ethereal record and it demonstrates more clearly than the township jive collaborations that Simon can take any form of music and tether it securely behind his own New York singer-songwriter stuff.
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