Album Review: Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, "Levitate" (Verve Forecast)

Bruce Hornsby [ tickets ]'s return to fronting a rock band is marred by a puzzling inconsistency. While he certainly wants to be seen as having expanded his vocabulary in the 23 years since "The Way It Is," Hornsby expends too much energy copping sonic tricks from hip-hop, Dave Matthews ("Space is the Place"), Radiohead ("Here We Are Again") and the guitar interplay that defined his onetime employer The Grateful Dead. The weakest elements in Hornsby's arsenal are his lyrics and vocals, which ...

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