Mandy Moore: Wild Hope
Status of copy at Case Memorial Library
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog Sound Check: "She co-wrote with … Deb Talan and Steve Tannen of the Weepies … folk singer-songwriter Lori McKenna … Chantal Kreviazuk and Rachael Yamagata. … The result is 'Wild Hope' … an album of 12 reflective folk-pop songs with maturity that belies Moore's 23 years. … She wrote many of these songs by tapping into the turbulence she felt after her break-up with 'Scrubs' star Zach Braff, and though she never calls him out by name, there's a bracing sense of candor here that makes these songs easily relatable. The mid-tempo piano ballad 'Looking Forward to Looking Back,' a Weepies co-write, is loaded with vivid imagery of a relationship falling apart, and Moore conveys a wistful determination that will break your heart. … 'Wild Hope' sounds much different than Moore's early music, but it's less a transformation than an evolution: She grew up, and learned that she didn't have to record material she didn't believe in. Although the album is her fifth, 'Wild Hope' is in many ways Moore's solo debut. It's catchy, it's honest and best of all, a strong heart beats beneath these songs" (7/18/07).
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog Sound Check: "She co-wrote with … Deb Talan and Steve Tannen of the Weepies … folk singer-songwriter Lori McKenna … Chantal Kreviazuk and Rachael Yamagata. … The result is 'Wild Hope' … an album of 12 reflective folk-pop songs with maturity that belies Moore's 23 years. … She wrote many of these songs by tapping into the turbulence she felt after her break-up with 'Scrubs' star Zach Braff, and though she never calls him out by name, there's a bracing sense of candor here that makes these songs easily relatable. The mid-tempo piano ballad 'Looking Forward to Looking Back,' a Weepies co-write, is loaded with vivid imagery of a relationship falling apart, and Moore conveys a wistful determination that will break your heart. … 'Wild Hope' sounds much different than Moore's early music, but it's less a transformation than an evolution: She grew up, and learned that she didn't have to record material she didn't believe in. Although the album is her fifth, 'Wild Hope' is in many ways Moore's solo debut. It's catchy, it's honest and best of all, a strong heart beats beneath these songs" (7/18/07).
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