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EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE March 2002
James Keast
MARY MARGARET O'HARA
Apartment Hunting (Apartment Hunting Productions)
Apartment Hunting
Eccentric Canadian troubadour Mary Margaret O'Hara returns
with her first recording since 1991's Christmas EP, and her
first proper full-length since her worldwide smash, 1988's
Miss America - and she's trying to slide it in under the radar,
since it's the soundtrack to a small Canadian film that played
in theatres for about 30 seconds last summer. Though there
are song contributions from the film's writer/director Bill
Robertson, and a track from Klave Y Kongo, this is Mary Margaret's
show and it's a stunner. Her voice has deepened and matured
in the ensuing dozen or so years, and while the album opens
with her take on a bluesy diva, it doesn't take long before
her unique personality begins to spit and polish these compositions
into her own distinct shape.
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