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20.5.08

Well then, just look -- One does not have to Listen



It's possible to listen to all 40-plus minutes of actress-turned-singer Scarlett Johansson's debut disc, "Anywhere I Lay My Head," and still have no earthly idea what she actually sounds like.

A collection of respectably obscure Tom Waits covers produced with a heavy hand by TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek -- who apparently never met an overdub, pump organ or distortion delivery device he didn't like -- the album is ultimately too ethereal for its own good.

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