It’s hard to listen to one of Irish roué Neil Hannon’s lush records without imagining him in an ascot and smoking jacket drinking a brandy. Whether relating to a horny teen’s plea (“To Die a Virgin”) or sneering that a pop diva indeed has “special needs,” Hannon gazes at hypocrisy and other annoyances with a jaundiced, often hilarious eye. And with a voice that over nine albums has matured into a buttery croon, he deserves to be recognized as the unsung genius of symphonic pop.
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