マイケル・ブーブレの2007年『Call Me Irresponsible』以来となる2年半ぶりのアルバム。2曲の新曲に加え、お馴染みのマイケル的解釈による様々な時代からのスタンダード楽曲11曲を収録。スタジオでの作業に半年間を費やし、マイケルによるオリジナルであるファースト・シングル「Haven't Met You Yet」、スタンダード「Cry Me A River」「You're Nobody Till somebody Loves You」「Georgia On My Mind」、そしてシャロン・ジョーンズとザ・ダップ・キングスと共演した「Baby (You've Got What It Takes)」、ヴァン・モリソンの名作「Crazy Love」などを録音。最後を飾るのはアカペラ・グループ“ナチュラリー7”との共演による印象的な「Stardust」。プロデュースには、これまでと同じくデヴィッド・フォスターが、更にボブ・ロックとウンベルト・ガティカも参加。こちらはDVD付きのスペシャル・エディションになります。
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Today's most popular crooner Michael Buble steps outside the box for this fourth studio album, his follow-up to 2007's 'Call Me Irresponsible'. Moving away from the Rat Pack stylings of yore, here he adopts a decidedly 70s sounding singer songwriter feel with which he sounds equally at home. Produced by pop staples David Foster and Humberto Gatica with the surprise addition of Bob Rock (Metallica), the album includes two Buble originals and features a guest spot from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.|

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Buoyed by the popularity of the hit contemporary pop ballad "Home," singer Michael Buble's 2005 album, It's Time, clearly positioned the vocalist as the preeminent neo-crooner of his generation. Buble's 2007 follow-up, Call Me Irresponsible, only further reinforced this notion. Not only had he come into his own as a lithe, swaggering stage performer with a knack for jazzing a crowd, but he had also grown into a virtuoso singer. Sure, he'd never drop nor deny the Sinatra comparisons, but now Buble's voice -- breezy, tender, and controlled -- was his own. It didn't hurt, either, that he and his producers found the perfect balance of old-school popular song standards and more modern pop covers and originals that at once grounded his talent in tradition and pushed him toward the pop horizon. All of this is brought to bear on Buble's 2009 effort, Crazy Love. Easily the singer's most stylistically wide-ranging album, it is also one of his brightest, poppiest, and most fun. Buble kicks things off with the theatrical, epic ballad "Cry Me a River" and proceeds to milk the tune with burnished breath, eking out the drama line by line. It's over the top for sure, but Buble takes you to the edge of the cliff, prepares to jump, and then gives you a knowing wink that says, not quite yet -- there's more fun to be had. And what fun it is with Buble swinging through "All of Me," and killin' Van Morrison's classic "Crazy Love" with a light and yearning touch. And just as "Home" worked to showcase Buble's own writing abilities, here we get the sunshine pop of "Haven't Met You Yet" -- a skippy, jaunty little song that brings to mind a mix of the Carpenters and Chicago. Throw in a rollicking and soulful duet with Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings on "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)," and a fabulously old-school close-harmony version of "Stardust" with Buble backed by the vocal ensemble Naturally 7, and Crazy Love really starts to come together. All of this would be enough to fall in love with the album, but then Buble goes and throws in a last minute overture by duetting with fellow Canadian singer/songwriter Ron Sexsmith on Sexsmith's ballad "Whatever It Takes." A devastating, afterglow-ready paean for romance, the song is a modern-day classic that pairs one of the most underrated and ignored songwriters of his generation next to one of the most ballyhooed in Buble -- a classy move for sure. The result, like the rest of Crazy Love, is pure magic. ~ Matt Collar

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