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Product Description The newest European styled artist. This multidimensional singer creates a unique fusion of music like you\'ve never heard before. This album has it all. Review Jennifer Morrison isn't afraid of her power, the big questions or reasons to reach for the sky. Over the past decade, the young singer/songwriter/producer has explored music in New York, California, Israel and beyond... In that evolution she's come to embrace disparate influences that give her an electronic/dance/pop/neo-chanteuse hybrid a shimmer beyond the propulsive beats that drive it. Like Imogene Heap, Kate Bush and Fiona Apple, Tori Amos and even Laura Nyro, there is a powerful vision and deep emotional currents running through Out of the Box. Sighs, sounds, beats - retro, synthetic, organic - cut and pasted into one throbbing whole, this is the kaleidescope that is Jennifer Morrison's musical visionquest. From the break-up survival anthem that is pure sisters-doing-it-for-themselves Laugh with its hush-hush into soul diva vocals to the Falco-evoking Citrine that is farflung force of will to get through heartbreak with a strong current of to-thine-own-self-be-true, Morrison comes into her own with a sense of conviction about not just weathering hard times but shining in the face of the storm. For me, certainly, it meant knowing I had a vision for this, and trusting it. To take the helm after a number of situations most people would kill for weren't what I really needed. I knew what this record should be, so I had to stand up and create the music I was hearing. In some ways, the pivot point is the slinky sultry brazen 35, where Morrison tackles who she's going to be at the midpoint in her life, the what, the how, the wow. A spatial track that saunters, her voice raw and draped over the fat scat vocals, she exudes authority even as she winks and nudges you towards an ebullience to temper her desires. We're all different, but we also all have experiences. To me, it's not what happens as much as how you go through it. Out of the Box isn't just about the darkness, but coming through it. The idea that there's a transformation - and you emerge stronger. Walking away from record deals and waiting tables in between, so she could create music on her terms, the merlot-voiced songstress who is not afraid of big emotions and a farflung sense of moments, the woman who is willing to reveal her soul and her disappointments on her way to follow such self-produced visionaries ranging from Prince to Todd Rundgren to Joni Mitchell in forging a unique synthesis of established genres - and juxtaposing depth with songs that can percolate, throb and swell. I wanted something that's easy to hear on this first listen, but the more you listen, the more you hear. It's not just one time through and there you go... This record reveals itself even as it sucks you in. To me, those were always my favorite albums. And it's funny: the decision to finally produce myself wasn't about wanting to be in control, but more letting my subconscious have complete freedom. Rather than judging or trying to fit in some notion or other, this is pure music channeled from within... That makes it more honest, a little more real and gritty - even as it's everything I love about electronica, dance music, pop. Putting an ascending keyboard pattern against a machined click for the brooding Roadkill, Morrison is equal points Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Nicks. While the synth washed Turn is a tidal tighrope of desire, the creeping Stay gives Morrison's muscular tenor a place to shrug off romantic disappointment as she scales a bravura melody and Ah-Ah takes a sweeping bit of wonder and injects it with emerging self-awareness and empowerment. --Holly Gleason