Option (Sept.-Oct./92, p.122) - "..mixes songs, poems from WWI-era union papers, and stories from Phillips's life into a quintessential performance.."41.73705
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Down Beat (p.59) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Neville uses his distinct vibrato-laden voice to present the sanctified words of 'I Am A Pilgrim' and 11 more pew-and-pulpit favorites..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The material slides from uptempo celebration to pensive ballad, Neville never preachy, only reverent."7.590174
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Rolling Stone (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Wainwright's relentless self-analysis and beguiling voice...make for an oddly sweet psychodrama....A riveting one-woman show."Spin (p.105) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Sardonic chamber-folk gems such as 'Tower Song' and 'You Cheated Me' offer lyrical and sonic detail for days."CMJ - "With singer/songwriters like Martha Wainwright, who boil their tunes down to spare words and guitars, it's tough to determine their influences."Q (Magazine) (p.148) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith a cutting edge and a soaring, gutsy voice to match. Perfectly capable of penning a country-ish strum or a radio-friendly pop hook..."Blender (Magazine) (p.77) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[S]he's finally got material mature enough to sink her formidable chops into."Paste (magazine) (p.68) - "[The album] portrays Wainwright as a distinctive artist with a caustic sense of humor and a complicated family situation."7.401193
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Alternative Press (12/95, p.77) - "...How have we lived without this stuff for so long, anyway?..."7.057384
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Entertainment Weekly (2/9/01, p.78) - "Audaciously weds punk, new wave, and hip-hop...[into] one spunky party record..." - Rating: BAlternative Press (3/01, pp.70,72) - 3 out of 5 - "...Sexy, whip-smart batch of electro-funk pop from Mancunian TV junkies....pulling off such facile cut'n'paste stuff with clever elan....these jocks don't forget the rock..."Magnet (4-5/01, p.69) - "...The band's debut is hip...combining elements of old-school rap, hip hop, girl-powered punk and lord knows what else..."5.937814
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Uncut (p.101) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[S]he's got an appealing bittersweet voice....Classic country-folk fare."5.313567
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Dirty Linen (06-07/03, p.88) - "...Grier succeeds in giving these familiar traditional melodies a fresh sheen..."5.251839
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Entertainment Weekly (No. 842, p.93) - "...HELL is heaven." - Grade: A-Uncut (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "LaVette's fierce and knowing transformations of material from female writers like Sinad O'Connor, Dolly Parton and Aimee Mann consistently push the levels into the red..."5.244142
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Q (1/95, p.280) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...There's a pub-styled chug-a-lug, a loose country feel, boozesque sub-Faces harmonies to the whole affair that is...rather wee-wee-hours-effective..."5.232131
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Rolling Stone (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Joey pursued Stooges-like basics and Phil Spector-size romance with the same zeal both in and out of the Ramones..."Billboard (p.32) - "[A] winningly eclectic and occasionally sentimental hodgepodge, from the riffy attack of 'Rock 'n' Roll Is the Answer' to the near-metallic crunch of 'Cabin Fever.'"Uncut (magazine) (p.96) - "[With] the astonishing 'Waiting For That Railroad', all lovelorn introspection, wherein gentle acoustic guitars gradually reveal a wistful, resplendent Spectorian Wall Of Sound."5.007533
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Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.104) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"Rolling Stone (6/20/02, pp.81-2) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A moody, murky album...and fascinating in its own right....A 57-minute pastiche of beats, sound effects, machine hums, found voices and mock-symphonic patterns of robot noise, shifting from texture to texture almost casually..."Spin (1/03, p.71) - Ranked #19 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" - "...Indelibly shaped by hip-hop but lured astray by every other sound in the universe."Q (May 2002, p.107) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Much of [the album] evokes a dream-state between waking and sleeping....Davis is a man who takes himself incredibly seriously, with his intense demeanour and slavish devotion to hip hop..."Q (p.134) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Josh 'DJ Shadow' Davis is undeniably a master of his craft..."CMJ (6/02, p.5) - "...An astounding achievement that should easily catapult Shadow back into the spotlight...soul stirring beats, irrepressible DJ theatrics, personality and humor....Completely captivating and flawlessly imaginative..."Vibe (7/02, p.135) - 3 discs out of 5 - "...The vibe here is more overtly bumptious...Shadow is working angles his contemporaries haven't thought of yet..."Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.76) - Ranked #36 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002"Mojo (Publisher) (5/02, p.96) - "...An intense experience, precisely focused yet disarmingly ambiguous....You will hear few finer records this year."NME (Magazine) (5/18/02, p.35) - 6 out of 10 - "...This is the fetishasation of sound for its own sake...That's not to say there aren't great moments here..."4.540205
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