Word: oddityã
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...Roads. The instrumentation is a sort of chamber country affair, with pedal steel and keyboards filling out the central piano and guitar. The key may be the inspired use of space—the music never builds to more than a jaunty bounce (as on “Billy Oddity??). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over a simplistic piano progression, would sound like a botched Coldplay outtake in anyone else’s hands, but Mojave manage to steer it from the brink...