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Review: Burt Bacharach's legendary career as a composer is celebrated with Essential Burt Bacharach, collecting 20 of his most essential songs. Performed by a variety of artists, the album has been described as an exercise in the uncanny, opening up vaults of memory that occupy the same historic place as "nursery rhymes and Beatles songs", albeit with less identifiability. That all changes here, with the album showcasing Bacharach's incredible talent for composing quick-spreading, earworming hooks, which tend to spread through the public consciousness faster than pandemics.