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Scissors Cut
Pop · 1981 · 9 tracks

Scissors Cut

Art Garfunkel

Crystalline high-tenor vocals floating over lush, orchestral arrangements. A masterclass in early-80s soft pop that feels like a quiet, rainy Sunday morning.

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It's like being wrapped in a warm, slightly sad velvet blanket for forty minutes.

A serene and sophisticated meditation on loss, wrapped in high-gloss orchestral beauty.

Scissors Cut · vs · Art Garfunkel
Rainy Day+3.8σ

Rainy Day saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks
02
Scissors Cut
3:49
03
Up in the World
2:17
04
Hang on In
3:46
05
So Easy to Begin
2:57
06
Bright Eyes
3:55
07
Can't Turn My Heart Away
3:23
08
The French Waltz
3:12
09
In Cars
3:49
10
That's All I've Got to Say
1:52
Moments Worth Waiting For
The haunting, cinematic swell of the strings during the chorus of Bright Eyes, evoking a sense of profound loss.
The delicate, almost whispered delivery of the final line in That's All I've Got to Say, where the music fades to near-silence.
The way the title track uses the playground metaphor of rock-paper-scissors to describe the painful complexity of adult relationships.
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