Paul Simon

Paul Simon's new album is all about heart versus mind, thinking versus feeling, and how
these dichotomies get in the way of making music or love. He addresses the issue directly
in "Think Too Much" (which was once to have been the title of this album), goes at it
metaphorically in "Train in the Distance," resolves it temporarily in "Hearts and Bones" and
fashions a sort of fable about it in "Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog af... More >

In his deliberately slight way, this fellow could be a comer. Rarely have the quiddities of pushing forty with more brain than heart or bone (or muscle) been explored with such obsessive attention to detail--acute musical touches match involuted lyrics small surprise for small surprise. (Grade: B+)