Friday, June 29, 2007

Sue P. Fox - Light Matches, Spark Lives


SUE P. Fox has a distinctive voice. Or distinctive voices. Her speaking voice is a weary drawl occasionally brightened by amusement. Her performing voice shifts from robotic blankness to lisping feyness to childish mispronunciation to "normal" first-person tones: essentially, it shifts from character to character. It's propelled by her writing voice, which runs through tunnels of memory and mazes of present-day anxiety, occasionally crashing into a locked door marked "The Future." Fox's performing voice and writing voice run on and on until a song ends. But when the song ends, closure is usually nowhere in sight.



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