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Wall focuses the listener's attention on the lyrics.
author: Patrick Langston, Ottawa Citizen
A reflective, often obscure, album, Returning Fire is the second release by Ottawa's Gerry Wall. In it, Wall ponders issues great and small, from the self-congratulatory egos of the wealthy and the self-righteous jealousy of the rest of us to the sanctity of motherhood, the precariousness of love and, in one particularly elliptical song, the election of a new pope. Wall has a light, pleasing voice that adapts readily to the pop- and country-tinged melodies, moves easily from warm engagement to a knowing distance, and focuses the listener's attention on the lyrics (all the songs were written by Wall and his brother-in-law, Graham Knight).
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