Copeland - Blushing (*New-CD) ROCK
New Factory Sealed CD Digiwallet Description While “Ixora” was a slow album it had nice moments of emotional punctuation as well as some very good orchestration and while I can hear elements of “Ixora” and older Copeland throughout “Blushing” it ends up being more of the same but by and large without the moments. So Marsh often employs a lot of high sighs and cooing melodies and that’s exactly how lead track “Pope” from its first strains starts out. While not as pronounced through the rest of the album it still made me groan a little and pushed my feeling of wanting something different so every time I heard those sighs and that whispered singing relief it started to irritate me. But that wasn’t a breaker for me. Two other elements popped up (enough) to make me mark this as my least favorite Copeland release: 1) an almost unrelenting slow pace/ tempo (for our ear’s sake please mix in some more mid-tempo songs!—some will point out that “Colorless” cranks up some toward the end of the s