Patience is not a virtue I possess. So when I wake up at 3am afraid of my dorm room, which is tinged with an eerie fluorescent glow from the parking lot scenery outside, I need a quick fix for my interrupted slumber. Mayer Hawthorne 's A Strange Arrangement has been the soundtrack to my witching hour since I found it in my mailbox last September. Usually I don't go for this kind of sap - I suppose it's fairly telling that my favorite song on the album is not "Green Eyed Love" or "I Wish It Would Rain," but instead "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out." Hawthorne's falsetto really toots my horn, especially when coupled with the multi-harmony technological magic that was unavailable to his Motown predecessors.
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