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Closer [Enhanced]
~ Josh Groban (Artist)
4.5 out of 5 stars  (33 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (1 Dec 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Wea
  • ASIN: B0000SVWXQ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (33 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,555 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Oceano
2. My Confession
3. Mi Mancherai (Il Postino) feat Joshua Bell
4. Si Volvieras a Mi
5. When You Say You Love Me
6. Per Te
7. All ‘Improvviso Amore
8. Broken Vow
9. Caruso
10. Remember When It Rained
11. Hymme a L’Amour
12. You Raise Me Up
13. Never Let Go feat Deep Forest

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Thanks to a fortuitous intersection of talent and fate, 22-year-old Josh Groban hasn't finished his senior year in performing arts school but has already released Closer, his sophomore effort on a major label. Fans of the young vocal phenomenon's debut will find much to enthral them here, even if it nudges the singer closer to the centre of producer/mentor David Foster's MOR pop sensibilities. Eschewing much of its predecessors more overt classic-lite pretensions and pop-rock covers for a slate of dramatic, Eurocentric ballads that serve as a showcase for the singer's inviting baritone, Groban shrewdly positions himself as the American alternative to the Bocelli-Watson crossover axis. "Caruso" may find the singer falling short of its operatic inspiration, but "Oceano" and "My Confession" quickly showcase the singer's true dramatic range (which seems to all but yearn for a bona fide Broadway musical challenge), while a vocal take of Bacalov's graceful "Il Postino" theme uses classical virtuoso Joshua Bell's violin flourishes to good effect. To his credit, Groban displays some promising efforts at songwriting collaboration on the bittersweet "Per Te" and "Remember When It Rains", while the ambient/ethnic soundscape of Deep Forest's "Never Let Go" offers a teasing alternative to the record's otherwise melodramatic production formula. Groban has found commercial triumph via Foster's mentoring, but there remains a nagging sense here that he hasn't truly pushed himself as an artist--yet. --Jerry McCulley

Description
Powerhouse vocalist Josh Groban may not be all things to all people, but he's certainly many things to many people. An international sensation, Groban is a Broadway-ready belter, romantic crooner, and classical/pop crossover phenomenon. Groban largely shies away from the more operatic side of his musical personality on CLOSER, leaning more towards a lush, cosmopolitan style that finds him singing in Italian, French,Spanish, and English with equal aplomb.
While the album is speckled with adult-contemporary pop production touches courtesy of Groban's mentor David Foster, much of the record sports a cinematic, grandly orchestrated feel. And on the closing track "Never Let Go", his collaboration with ambient popsters Deep Forest, Groban even bucks for inclusion on a future volume of the PURE MOODS series, showing that he's always got another stylistic surprise up his sleeve.