Charlotte Martin, On Your Shore - 1h 5m 23s

Tracks & Durations

1. On Your Shore	4:00
2. Limits of Our Love	3:30
3. Your Armor	4:25
4. Every Time It Rains	3:43
5. Steel	4:49
6. Sweet Chariot	4:25
7. Madman	4:06
8. Up All Night	3:57
9. Haunted	3:38
10. Parade On	4:15
11. Something Like a Hero	6:22
12. Beautiful Life	3:50
13. Wild Horses	8:03
14. Copy Protection	6:11

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Review

Those who at one time toyed with the idea of becoming Tori Amos fans but ultimately rejected the idea (face facts: her music can be alienating) will want to throw out a life raft for Charlotte Martin who, with On Your Shore, manages to send Amos-like shivers up the spine without overblowing the oddball, quirky, I'm-so-complex stuff. The vibe throughout these 13 songs is pure Amos--piano-driven, dark, theatrical, sweepingly orchestral--but doses of Kate Bush-style button-pushing and Cure-modeled insouciance bump up the interest level. So does the songwriting. "You can't judge the love by the lover/The sky by its thunder," goes the opening verse of "Beautiful Life," and similarly contemplative concepts course through songs like the first single "Every Time It Rains," also a lyrical stunner. The sole cover here, a tender take on the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" presented as a bonus track, swats away doubts that Martin is a pour-it-on performer. Best of all is how this CD bodes for female singer/songwriters to come. Instead of dumbing down the songs and playing the pop tart or, worse, drowning us in a mellowness that makes us search for our own pulse, Martin's music probes the girl within. She gets us thinking, and without shunting us aside in the process. --Tammy La Gorce

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On Your Shore

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 1h 5m 40s (+0m 17s)

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