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- July 29, 1991: View Points:Music
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- VIEW POINTS, Page 63
- MUSIC
- Burdened Spirits, Soaring Songs
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- <p>By Janice Castro
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- <p> TONI CHILDS has done something tougher than just make another
- terrific record here. She has beat the jinx. Her debut album in
- 1988, Union, was one of those comet-like appearances that occur
- more frequently in pop music than they do in the firmament,
- leaving the listener simultaneously dazzled and wondering, a bit
- uneasily, if she could ever do it again. Many don't, after all.
- But then, it's becoming increasingly clear that Toni Childs
- plays only by her own rules. HOUSE OF HOPE (A&M) is a record
- about emotional battering: in love, in childhood, in marriage.
- The songs, mostly written and produced with the formidable
- David Ricketts, soar and surprise; the lyrics have a spare
- astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell these
- tales of burdened hearts and spirits that, against all odds and
- expectations, refuse to be broken. You can hear House of Hope
- pouring out of the car radio this summer as Thelma and Louise
- barrel along in their T-Bird convertible into the mythical heart
- of American pop culture. When they stop to refuel, they'll find
- Childs right there. Outlaws of the heart, all of them.
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