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Asked, once, who the Roches were, I suggested that they were the best collection of singer-songwriters in one group since the Beatles. That's saying an awful lot, and you certainly couldn't prove it by their album sales. But to anyone who's become entranced by their particular brand of homespun harmonies, wrapped around lyrics that range from minute and delicate dissections of the mundane, to short sharp jabs into the heart of the matter, such a claim seems reasonable. All of that is interspersed with a kind of throw-away humor that lets the air out of any idea that they might somehow take themselves too seriously. Nevertheless, the Roches are dealing here with the stuff of life.For example, these are the opening lines of "i'm someone who loves you":---------------------------- What if your father has a stroke when you are ten And sits like a rag-doll, wheelchair in the den You start failing school Breaking all the rules Pretty soon you're a bum----------------------------Wait -- what?? And that song is just getting started.I think it's helpful that the arrangements and production of this album are so assured. By 1995 the Roches were well along in their career as a group, and are listed as co-producers (along with Stewart Lerman). There are dozens of little pleasures lurking in the tracks, such as the chirpy "lovebirds" fiddle on "i'm someone who loves you". And, buried down in the mix of "holidays", is somebody shouting "Get outta my face!" underneath the lyric "Holidays . . . are hard."I should add that despite the sometimes heavy subject matter, there is a certain underlying warmth that seems to permeate the whole project. It seems to me that the simple pleasure that Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy take in each others' company, becomes - in the end - part of the product. But after all, it's a family album.Mixing all of these ingredients together, I'd say this album is like the kind of honey you might want to buy at the market. Raw and unfiltered, it nevertheless goes down sweetly, and leaves a pleasant aftertaste.