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Some family music calls for cranking the volume and rocking out. Renee & Jeremy's calls for sitting cross-legged on the floor à la preschool circle time. Gentle is this pair's guiding principle--they will be your moon, as they sing on "Night Mantra," and as they prompt you, or your Cinderella-nightgown-clad 3-year-old, to close your eyes on "Falling Star Lullaby," they will kindly point out that love will always be there, and so will they ("let the rhythm remind you," goes the harmony). Reinforcement of this kind rarely comes in a package so palatable: Renee Stahl's voice is a lovely instrument that takes on shades of Cowboy Junkie Margo Timmons' at times, and Jeremy Toback's is rock-solid and frills-free. Together, they craft music that doesn't try too hard but measures up beautifully.
--Tammy La Gorce
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I generally save CD-specific comments for my columns, but I've gotta say this: Renee & Jeremy's It's a Big World is flat-out gorgeous. Warm, sweet, at-times haunting. Beautiful. Go get it. Now. If you don't like it, track me down and we'll make it right somehow. (But if you don't like it, you're wrong.) --Spare The Rock, Spoil The Child