Blog: Muruch

Corinne Bailey Rae's sophomore album The Sea was just released yesterday. Strangely, The Sea is being promoted and reviewed as a "raw, less manicured sound" than Rae's self-titled debut . Yet I feel the opposite is true. The languid, jazz-influenced intimacy of Corinne's debut has been replaced with a bigger, blander, much more polished sound. The Sea was one of my most anticipated releases of the new year, but has turned out to be my first big disappointment of 2010. [...]