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Feb 24, 2005 12:00 a.m. - Variety.com
Music Reviews: The affable Australian Ben Lee is still preaching to the converted: All you need is love. Not that he’s ever really nicked a Beatles melody in his 12 years of recording, but the 26-year-old is all about the feel-good vibe, opening your heart and surrounding yourself with love and -- as he did onstage -- flowers. New album "Awake Is the New Sleep" (New West) demonstrates he has fine-tuned his love songs and learned how to set them to light, engaging melodies; in concert, the maturity of the new material left the oldies in the dust.
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