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Paul Simon

So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music / Concord Music Group)

Reviewed by Raoul Hernandez, Fri., May 20, 2011

Phases & Stages

Paul Simon

So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music/Concord Music Group)

Abandoning "another album with a rhythmic premise" according to So Beautiful's deluxe edition DVD, Paul Simon nevertheless injects echoes of Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints in "Dazzling Blue" and "Love Is Eternal Sacred Light," respectively, feeding their author's master class mixtape of varied musical mattes (the Moby-like spiritual sampling on "Getting Ready for Christmas Day") like There Goes Rhymin' Simon and Still Crazy After All These Years.

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