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Today's Song: Alicia Keys "When It's All Over"

Rich Juzwiak ยท 11/27/12 05:20PM

Today, the once fawned-over phenom Alicia Keys released her fifth album, Girl on Fire (not a Hunger Games reference!). It's pretty good โ€” I've never thought of her as a great provider of texture, but there's a sonic adventurousness to this album unlike that of any she's released so far. Perhaps it is compensation for her increasingly strained voice (though that sort of thing rarely bothers me โ€” a little grit from overuse can add a lot of soul).