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Chris Willman
Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic
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UMG Only a very few performers put out their debut album having already established themselves as frontrunners for the Grammy for best new artist. Sienna Spiro is in that category, and let’s just say that “The Visitor,” her first full-length release, does nothing to diminish her chances in the category. As the title hints, it’s an album of songs written largely about feeling like a temporary intruder in the lives of others, especially cavalier men. But it’s unlikely that we’ll look back 10 or 20 years from now and think that Spiro was just a pop-culture transient. Hers is a voice that ought to have a lifetime’s staying power, bolstered by a lyrical and musical sensibility that provide everything her instrument needs to deliver a happy succession of knockout blows.
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