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Torch
Jazz · 1981 · 10 tracks

Torch

Carly Simon

A devastating collection of jazz standards and torch songs recorded during a marriage collapse. Smoky, orchestral, and deeply wounded.

September 28, 1981 · IMD (2)

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A heavy, orchestral descent into the exhaustion of a failing love.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Blue of Blue
3:41
02
I’ll Be Around
2:34
03
I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
3:48
05
Body and Soul
4:15
06
Hurt
3:28
07
From the Heart
2:51
08
Spring Is Here
3:06
09
Pretty Strange
3:03
10
What Shall We Do With the Child
2:49
11
Not a Day Goes By (From the Broadway Show 'Merrily We Roll Along')
2:42
Moments Worth Waiting For
The visceral, sweating desperation in the vocal delivery of the Sondheim centerpiece Not a Day Goes By.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Torch sound next to the rest of Carly Simon's catalogue?

Melancholic+4.0σ

Melancholic saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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