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Sotosound
Rumer had a Top 3 million-selling album in the UK with her 2010 album "Seasons Of My Soul". It's a great pop album and worth checking out.
She's been around the UK scene ever since.
Her 2016 album of Bacharach songs includes my favourite version of "One Less Bell To Answer". In that album there are tracks that focus on the purity of her voice and there are tracks that bring out the similarities with Karen Carpenter. She even persuaded Burt Bacharach to sing on her version of "This Girl's In Love With You".
What I can say is that Rumer is no Karen Carpenter clone. She's her own singer and has a habit of finding almost-forgotten songs and giving them a new lease of life.
One such song is "We Will", which she recorded for her 2012 album "Boys Don't Cry". "We Will" is an old Gilbert O'Sullivan song that was a UK Top 20 hit for him in 1971 but which had been long forgotten because of hits such as "Clair", "Get Down" and "Alone Again [[Naturally)". Hearing that song for the first time in years, and hearing it sung by Rumer was sooo comforting and reassuring.
Rumer now has a new album out called "Nashville Tears [[The Songs Of Hugh Prestwood)" and I suspect that I'll be buying it soon.
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