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Beautifully fragile, sweetly depressing and smart as hell. [Jun 2005, p.164]
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90With no bad tracks here, Maria Taylor has produced a glorious record.
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Like a tiny sparrow in the hand: delicate, fluttering, precisely built. [27 May 2005, p.139]
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80Clutching at understated folk and fluttering electro-pop, '11:11' is soothing, heart-wrenching and as beautiful as can be, all Mazzy Star shimmer and earthy love, falling on only a couple of slightly flat songs.
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80The effect of all this understatement... is that whenever she departs from wordy verses into melodically simple, pure as rainwater choruses, it's impossible not to want to sing along. [Aug 2005, p.102]
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8011:11's elegance is in its subtlety. [Jul 2005, p.103]
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Though Fink's Invisible Ones is bolder and more experimental, Taylor's 11:11 is the prettier of the two--and aching beauty is what they've always done best.
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Occasionally, Taylor's songs don't do justice to her strengths in playing them. [#9]
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70Her singing manages to convey both youth and authorial maturity, which is a neat trick. [Jun 2005, p.116]
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70For those who like folk tinged ballads of the roots and electro sort, this is good news. [Jun 2005, p.85]
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70Packed with luminous warmth, honeyed vocals and ghostly hooks that repeatedly pull you back for more. [Jul 2005, p.122]
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The pleasure of 11:11 is hearing Taylor step up as a songwriter. [28 Jul 2005, p.86]
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The bulk of 11:11... is diluted by the liberally applied digital sheen glistening off the majority of the gauzily abstract arrangements.
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62On select tracks, Taylor may show boldness and an independency from Azure Ray and Now It's Overhead, but ultimately 11:11 settles for pandering to the backpack-toting, drama-thirsty WB demographic that has dovetailed so immaculately with the Saddle Creek universe.
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Luckily her whispery vocals and electro-tinged singer-songwriter musings sidestep the deep and meaningful wallpaper and delve into a place of beauty. [21 May 2005, p.66]
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Outside of an almost laughable club parody in "One for the Shareholder" and a couple monotonous moments, 11:11 is mostly strong, even if its spotlight is often on human weakness.
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elizabethh10i love this cd. it's her best ever, whoever isn't completely in love with it is crazy
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SarahC9The folk, electric sound of 11:11's music gives a nice touch in balancing out Maria Taylor's soft soothing voice.
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