• Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: May 26, 2023
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84

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. May 30, 2023
    90
    Archangel Hill is another life-affirming encounter with a remarkable artist. Shirley Collins may be British folk music royalty, but this record once again shows her ability to communicate with her listeners as though they are the only people in the room.
  2. The Wire
    Jun 7, 2023
    80
    Archangel Hill is a great album. As dearly as I love her early work, there’s something about Collins’s sound here that feels just right. [Jul 2023, p.50]
  3. Jun 6, 2023
    80
    With Archangel Hill, Collins continues to deliver on the title of that extraordinary record, Folk Roots, New Routes: finding old ways to look forward and new ways to look back.
  4. Jun 2, 2023
    80
    Archangel Hill documents a singular artist with a tremendous command of her gifts – no small accomplishment for someone who was 87 years of age when this was released.
  5. May 30, 2023
    80
    This album proves that Collins – if she so wishes – still has more to give. [Jun 2023, p.18]
  6. May 30, 2023
    80
    With its own low-key sparkle Archangel Hill stands testament to a musical third act every bit as engaging as anything that went before. [Jun 2023, p.91]
  7. May 30, 2023
    80
    The third album since Shirley Collins’s renaissance at 81 turns out to be the finest.

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  1. Jun 12, 2023
    5
    Shirley Collins: please don't stop, follow your heart, enjoy this, don't listen to what anyone says. That is the real gift of your music.