Josh Groban / Closer – CD

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Author: Groban, Josh

Brand: WACR2

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Format: Enhanced

Release Date: 11-11-2003

Details: Product Description Josh Groban, the biggest-selling male debut artist of 2002, returns with his second studio album, Closer. With his self-titled debut Top 10 and triple platinum -+ and still well in the Top 200 after 91+ weeks -+ Closer finds the young singer once more in the studio with esteemed producer David Foster (Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand) and a handful of special guests. A sophisticated pop phenomenon, Groban is back with a phenomenal new album. Amazon.ca Thanks to a fortuitous intersection of talent and fate, 22-year-old Josh Groban hasn’t finished his senior year in performing arts school but has already released his sophomore effort on a major major label. Fans of the young vocal phenom’s debut will find much to enthrall them here, even if it nudges the singer closer to the center of producer/mentor David Foster’s MOR pop sensibilities. Eschewing much of its predecessors more overt classic-lite pretensions and pop-rock covers for a slate of dramatic, Eurocentric ballads that serve as a showcase for the singer’s inviting baritone, Groban shrewdly positions himself as the American alternative to the Bocelli-Watson crossover axis. « Caruso » may find the singer falling short of its operatic inspiration, but « Oceano » and « My Confession » quickly showcase the singer’s true dramatic range (which seems to all but yearn for a bona fide Broadway musical challenge), while a vocal take of Bacalov’s graceful « Il Postino » theme uses classical virtuoso Joshua Bell’s violin flourishes to good effect. To his credit, Groban displays some promising efforts at songwriting collaboration on the bittersweet « Per Te » and « Remember When It Rains, » while the ambient/ethnic soundscape of Deep Forest’s « Never Let Go » offers a teasing alternative to the record’s otherwise melodramatic production formula. Groban has found commercial triumph via Foster’s mentoring, but there remains a nagging sense here that he hasn’t truly pushed himself as an artist–yet. –Jerry McCulley

UPC: 093624845027

EAN: 0093624845027

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New