![]() ![]() ![]() But ultimately, it’s the pop of Sara Bareilles they’ve captured on The Blessed Unrest, which is after all not so “pop” and not so “indie” and not so “jazz”, but all of it, wrapped up into a new thing that you haven’t exactly heard before. But throughout you’ll also hear her aptitude for the raw, a la Fiona Apple, and the epic a la Annie Lennox, along with just a touch of the New York indie of an Ingrid Michaelson or Regina Spektor. So for the melancholy of a cut like “Manhattan”, she skews jazz, and just lays the song out there – piano and vocal and plaintive horns in just the right places. There’s at least one radio pop anthem – the lead track “Brave” (co-written with fun’s Jack Antonoff) – but the story evolves from there. With co-production mostly from O’Mahony, Bareilles has made an honest and soulful pop record that for all its pretty songs is refreshing for its failure to be any one thing. ![]()
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