Duncan Sheik

On his 1996 debut, Duncan Sheik played the pining lover in a soulless world. It was a pose
that made for good melodrama at the expense of great art, bogging down the album with
syrupy arrangements and narratives that bordered on maudlin. Two years do make a
difference. Humming finds its predecessor's woebegone crooner replaced by a
philosophical singer-songwriter who now tempers his yearning sentiments with... More >