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Reviews

Sam Phillips: Don’t Do Anything

By Steve Horowitz

Phillips relishes the inscrutability the material provides. This is song noir, whose low-key, chiaroscuro-style shadings of musical effects heighten the psychological reality. [4 June 2008]

Sam Phillips: Fan Dance

By Gary Glauber

After a five-year hiatus, Sam Phillips returns to form with the very intimate 'Fan Dance', a quality collection of adult pop that allows her sexy voice to deliver cryptically introspective musings in a finely focused, mostly acoustic scheme.. [30 July 2001]