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After a four-year hiatus, Texas-born Mexican-American Tish Hinojosa sets her confident, optimistic sights on merging the various, and at times, contradictory impulses of her discrete singer-songwriter vision. If Sign of Truth is her most successful synthesis of traditional Mexican music, troubadour folk, and new adult contemporary, it is also, song for song, her most perplexing. Hinojosa's four-year residency in Nashville has both blessed her songwriting with pop acumen--the anthemic melody of the title track and the modern-dance-groove-meets-eerie-lap-steel of "Taste of Dying Summer"--and burdened it with over-earnest
After a four-year hiatus, Texas-born Mexican-American Tish Hinojosa sets her confident, optimistic sights on merging the various, and at times, contradictory impulses of her discrete singer-songwriter vision. If Sign of Truth is her most successful synthesis of traditional Mexican music, troubadour folk, and new adult contemporary, it is also, song for song, her most perplexing. Hinojosa's four-year residency in Nashville has both blessed her songwriting with pop acumen--the anthemic melody of the title track and the modern-dance-groove-meets-eerie-lap-steel of "Taste of Dying Summer"--and burdened it with over-earnest poesy and innocuous sentiments. Lines like "I love the way you make me see / The things that really matter" and "If we don't count our blessings / We're wasting our time" sound like feel-good fodder for mainstream country or pop radio, but one expects more from Hinojosa. She seems more at home on "Wildflowers," a delicate homage to Pablo Neruda, and "Dreams I Have Seen," the album's penultimate and stand-out track. "You'd never believe the dreams I've seen," Hinojosa sings. Had her songwriting kept pace with her musical ambition, we just might have. --Roy Kasten
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Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd
Release date: 23 May 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0011661317222 UPC: 011661317222
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