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<text id=91TT1695>
<title>
July 29, 1991: View Points:Music
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 63
MUSIC
Burdened Spirits, Soaring Songs
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<p>By Janice Castro
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<p> TONI CHILDS has done something tougher than just make another
terrific record here. She has beat the jinx. Her debut album in
1988, Union, was one of those comet-like appearances that occur
more frequently in pop music than they do in the firmament,
leaving the listener simultaneously dazzled and wondering, a bit
uneasily, if she could ever do it again. Many don't, after all.
But then, it's becoming increasingly clear that Toni Childs
plays only by her own rules. HOUSE OF HOPE (A&M) is a record
about emotional battering: in love, in childhood, in marriage.
The songs, mostly written and produced with the formidable
David Ricketts, soar and surprise; the lyrics have a spare
astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell these
tales of burdened hearts and spirits that, against all odds and
expectations, refuse to be broken. You can hear House of Hope
pouring out of the car radio this summer as Thelma and Louise
barrel along in their T-Bird convertible into the mythical heart
of American pop culture. When they stop to refuel, they'll find
Childs right there. Outlaws of the heart, all of them.
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