Music Review

Love Is the Answer (2009)

Barbra Streisand

Reviewed by Leah Greenblatt | Sep 23, 2009

Leah Greenblatt

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EW's GRADE

B+

Details Release Date: Sep 29, 2009; Lead Performance: Barbra Streisand; Genre: Pop

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SHE IS THE ANSWER Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand, the grande dame at 67, has no use for future-disco and NC-17 rappers. Her album of languid, impeccably arranged standards, Love Is the Answer, seems swathed in champagne bubbles and black velvet, be it a sluicing, string-laden bossa nova (''Gentle Rain'') or a Sinatra standby (''In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning''). Not exactly galvanizing stuff, but the woman still sings like buttah.  B+

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Originally posted Sep 23, 2009 Published in issue #1068 Oct 02, 2009 Order article reprints

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