Carly Simon

On Come Upstairs, Carly Simon's instincts are bold, but her music betrays her. Confronting a
self-imposed semiretirement, declining disc sales and the pervasive peppiness of the New
Wave, Simon has responded with a comely perversity by writing a batch of new songs that
are either loose and trashy or tight and morose. Neither of these hybrids has much to do
with what's moving in record stores these days, and the tunes suffer from the po... More >