Randy Newman - Bad Love CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

for a song") of "I Miss You" are likely addressed to his ex-wife and their children.

Producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake keep Newman's sound clean and uncluttered, even at its most orchestral. That allows the songwriter's typical cast of unsettling characters to be gracefully borne up -- their humanity validated, for better or worse -- on his gorgeous, hymnlike melodies. The effect is complex and deep in ways that only Newman can be, and for that reason alone, Bad Love is good to have. (RS 816-817)

ANTHONY DeCURTIS