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Originally Posted by Pyewacket
The reviews have been insane for this album, a few already calling it album of the year, and the huge preponderance of reviewers giving it four or five stars. Some US reviewers have ranked it 3.5 stars...but other than that, it really has sewn up the critics.
I am very pleased to see this, though I have to say this: I think if Tori Amos had come up with the exact same songs and production and had even managed to sing like Kate, the reviews would have savaged her. There's something to be said for Kate's halo having never tarnished...every album receives huge accolades. And usually deservedly so.
I do love this album...it is very brave and very different. Ten years ago, an ad for Sarah McLachlan's new album said that she was the only artist who took her time to unravel a song. Well...no pop songstress has ever done it to this length or time signature to my recollection. And yet, I don't have a problem with it. "Lake Tahoe" is actually my favorite on 50WFS. It's as if she wants a sustained mood more than a pop song, and she does achieve that. The melody and lyric (though there is poetry in it) have become secondary to the overall sound and emotion.
That said, I am shocked that there aren't at least a few reviewers who wanna rip her a new one. Maybe it's a case of the emperor's new clothes -- no one wants to be the idiot who called Queen Kate's new album just a little too naked.
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check out katebushnews.com. Though most of the reviews are beyond glowing, there are a handful of negative ones. I think one actually graded the album an "F". No everybody is loving this new work from Kate