Mandy Moore's
Wild Hope leaked all over the Internet this weekend, a good two months before its scheduled release date. There's a lot riding on this album: Not only would Moore and her label, The Firm Music, like to convince listeners that her teen-pop days are long gone, but numerous music magazine editors are hoping
Horses justifies the surprisingly high amount of pre-release press they've been giving it. "Extraordinary" is the first single, and let's just say you can hear the influence of both Rachel Yamagata
and Zach Braff, so proceed with caution:
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Idolator
If only the 1999 version of Mandy Moore was around to cover "Umbrella"—I suspect her cover would have a lot more oomph than this ready-for-Triple-A take on the Rihanna song that Moore performed on Yahoo! Music last week. [
