(Polydor)
The inexorable rise of soft rock continues apace with the fourth album from American sisters Catherine and Allison Pierce. The odd little edges of their folk-pop have been smoothed off in the transition to a major label, surfacing only occasionally ? as on Love You More, which somehow mixes backwoods gothic with an expensive-sounding studio sheen without sounding forced ? but they don't seem to have suffered from the process. That's because of the uniformly high quality of the songwriting: You & I is packed with potential Radio 2 staples ? the 60s-inflected Glorious, the opening pair of You'll Be Mine and It Will Not Be Forgotten. There's intimacy here, too: I Put Your Records On is a deceptively barbed account of trying to work out if a musician boyfriend is constant by listening to his records. It's sad and lovely, and proves the Pierces handle delicacy as well as they do drivetime.
Kelly Carlson Sara Foster Natassia Malthe Victoria Silvstedt Hilary Swank
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