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"No 2, a gorgeous follow-up to successful debut album 'Autumn Flow'. 'Corner Of An Endless Road' is an intense mesmerising and melodically smooth experience for the listener as Lior delves deeply into his enchanted musical world" Sunday Herald Sun, Feb 3. Scott Podmore
'Corner of an Endless Road' is the album in which the gifted songwriter has deviated from the norm of 'his' genre. From the opening track, you are drawn into an aural landscape of another culture, another life, another mind that seems littered with raw and unhesitant feeling. But more importantly, you are drawn instinctively to a strong voice that says a million things......
Layers of meaning are tied up in blissful melodies, but this element begs the listener to interpret each pleasing lyric. 'Corner of an Endless Road' is a culmination of remarkable talent, inhibitions for the unknown and a solid grasp of individual music
Tsunami Magazine, Brisbane
After the Triple J success of Lior's 2005 debut, Autumn Flow, this new record has all the hallmarks of a Difficult Second Album - more scope, more ambition and more obvious effort - but succeeds nonetheless. The plaintive, simple beauty of Israel-born Lior's voice and finger-picked acoustic guitar are a surprising match for the wall-of-sound arrangements on tracks April Bloom and Sonja. This mostly orchestral treatment gives the album an epic quality that might have weighted down other singers, but here it works, reaching beyond the perfunctory string quartet for a lush, sweeping feel echoing Nick Drake's first two albums or the grand string-laden funk of early '70s Serge Gainsbourg. Paired with Lior's gently personal and political songwriting, it's an intoxicating, evocative mix.
Key track: Sleeping In The Rain is a standout combination of '70s soft rock, Beatlesesque moments and a soaring dreamy chorus.
Guy Blackman
Lior - The Corner Of An Endless Road (CD)
Tue 11 March 2008
Lior was in danger of being pigeonholed by his biggest song so far - wedding favourite, the sublimely romantic We'll Grow Old Together. He hasn't rested on his laurels, or stayed safely in the box. On his second album, this accomplished Australian blessed with a magical voice stretches himself to cover new musical ground, with pleasing results.
The record begins with a Middle Eastern twist fans will recall from Lior's debut album, then drifts into a dreamy state. The first track was written by a great organ player, who lends his talents as a composer to the album. The strings, flute flourishes and clarinets that pepper the record are beautiful, with Beatles-esque arrangements, and a pared back, simple rhythm section.
This chameleon brings Paul Simon to mind, the theatrical sweetness of Jeff Buckley at times and even the flamboyance of Rufus Wainwright......
MUSIC Max, Foxtel
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