Corinne Bailey Rae: The Sea | CD review

VirginThe Sea begins with an acoustic-guitar chord and the words, "He's a real live wire/ He's the best of his kind/ Wait till you see those eyes". Corinne Bailey Rae is describing her husband, who died of an accidental methadone overdose while she was writing this album, the follow-up to her successful 2006 debut. Some of the songs pre-date his death, but, with a few unexpected, blissed-out exceptions, all sound elegiac. She seems lost in a reverie, wistfully recalling a quarrel as a Hammond or...

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