Carole King

Since her landmark Tapestry, Carole King has both oversimplified and overelaborated that
masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less
effectively personal. The spontaneity and simple joyfulness of her earlier Brill Building
music and the contemporary beauty of Tapestry eventually turned into the arid, stilted
sound of her worst album Fantasy. On Wrap Around Joy she has taken her first f... More >

The good news is that Carole's new lyricist used to work with Steely Dan. The bad news is that in Steely Dan he was a vocalist. (Grade: C)