In the Meantime newspaper reviews

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I'm starting a thread for "Meantime" newspaper reviews. I found two (rather negative) ones, attached below:

Independent on Sunday (London)
June 20, 2004, Sunday
BYLINE: NICK COLEMAN
One liked to think of her has the sensible one in Fleetwood Mac - a bit self-absorbed but in a nice way: practical, wise, vulnerable, soulful and, like, y'know, real. Here she is, following last year's creditable effort by a Christine-less Mac, working with musoid nephew Dan and sounding about as engaged with contemporary musical values as someone who made the best-selling pop album of the '70s. It's not a bad record. In fact her voice is as warm and unmannered as ever. But the arrangements are shinily dull and the songs consider love as a fudge of banal metaphors. Sorry. NC

Sunday Times (London)
June 20, 2004, Sunday
BYLINE: Mark Edwards
Sanctuary SANCD280 **
No band better exemplifies the adage that you need conflict in a group to create great music than Fleetwood Mac, where a soap opera's worth of dysfunctional relationships and addictions created some of the best adult-oriented rock ever to grace the airwaves. Christine McVie left the bickering band some half-a-dozen years ago for a quieter, presumably happier, life out in the country, and well, you're way ahead of me, aren't you? -the result is a solo album of soft rock so soporific that you'd swear several of the session musicians fell asleep while making it. Which is a shame, because the one song where the album sparks into life -Anything Is Possible -suggests that McVie still has hits inside her, if only she had something a little edgier to write about. ME