Bradley's direction and arrangements helped smooth her voice into the silky, torch song style for which she won fame.
Burke's telling of the torch song is unique, using one side of a casual conversation between former lovers.
She became known for torch songs.
But as a singer she can handle anything from torch songs and blues to ballads.
All of the tracks on the album are torch songs, hence the lonely name of the album.
For all of its coos about love and devotion, it's the album equivalent of a faked orgasma collection of torch songs with no fire.
Meditative and sanguine, these are afterglow torch songs for the alt rock set.
And at the same time, its this classic torch song that talks about love like a crime scene.
