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Packaged To Play reviewed by NY Newsday's Kevin Amorim

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Kevin Caffrey

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Date Posted: 08:33:00 06/17/01 Sun

Kevin Amorim of New York Newsday wrote the following review of "Packaged To Play" in the 6/14/01 issue of NightBeat:

Performance: B+
Songwriting: B
Sound Quality: B

"Make it through the first two tepid tracks on singer-songwriter Kevin Caffrey's recent disc and you'll be rewarded with a one-man rock-and-roll show.

Listen to "Eternal Forever" and "This Is Now" if you must, but the action on "Packaged to Play" heats up beginning with the five-minute-long synth- and guitar-drenched "Shackled." From there, Caffrey gets evocative. "If my life were a song/It would probably be so off-key," he sings on the beautiful and mysterious "I Know About Dreams." Then there's a British, new-wave feel to "So I Can't Help but Feel Afraid," thanks to the song's alternating driving and understated keyboards.

The instrumental "Beautiful Lush" doesn't need words for one to drink in the almost classical-style guitar.

Besides being a chameleon, Caffrey, the great white rasp of the South Shore, wrote, produced and played all of the nine songs on "Packaged to Play." And from the sound of things, he's doing all right by himself.

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