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Feels Like Home

EMAILPRINTby Norah Jones

Norah Jones reviews
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7.2 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 19 critic reviews
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Album Info

Label: Blue Note

Release Date: 10 February 2004

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Pop, Jazz

Summary

Arif Mardin produced this follow-up to the singer's hugely successful 2002 effort 'Come Away With Me.' Dolly Parton guests.

What The Critics Said

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90

PopMatters

There simply isn't another singer working in pop music now that holds a candle to Jones.

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90

Q Magazine

Far from rehashing her debut, she's made an older and wiser sequel, where the quiet magic of each song gets stronger with every listen. [Mar 2003, p.101]

88

Los Angeles Times

This is no more a perfect album than "Come Away With Me," but its highlights again carry the stamp of a singer whose talent is strong and whose vision is true.

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83

Spin

A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk. [Apr 2004, p.93]

83

E! Online

Instead of making any stupid concessions to her sudden celebrity... the Home girl plays it cool, carrying on with the same smooth vibes that made her a star.

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80

Mojo

It's similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art. [Mar 2004, p.92]

80

Rolling Stone

The most heartening thing about Feels Like Home is the utter absence of fussiness, or second-album overthink. It extends the Come Away With Me template while never echoing the earlier songs.

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80

All Music Guide

A soft and amiable album that frames Jones' "soft-focus Aretha Franklin" voice with a group of songs that are as classy as they are quiet.

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80

Launch.com

Recalling Come Away With Me only for Jones’s sultry voice, the album has its share of pleasant throwaways, but those are balanced by a handful of starkly beautiful and excellently arranged songs.

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80

The Onion (A.V. Club)

It should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear her reach for more.

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76

ShakingThrough.net

There are moments when Feels Like Home feels too maudlin ("Humble Me") or overly subdued ("Carnival Town"), but it's a generally winning collection of finely polished (albeit innocuous) gems.

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75

Entertainment Weekly

The vibe is more early Bonnie Raitt than early Sarah Vaughan. [13 Feb 2004, p.70]

70

Village Voice

If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured.

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70

Dot Music

Eventually you’re left longing for a dash of spontaneity or that the band would break into something adventurous.

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70

Blender

The mood of Jones's second album is more or less the same, if slightly friskier. [Mar 2004, p.118]

70

Uncut

Yes, it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic. [Mar 2004, p.99]

40

New York Magazine

Endlessly pleasing (or trying to please), Feels Like Home dilutes even Jones’s brand of comfort-food jazz, grinding it down to something like a chewy gob of baby food.

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40

Austin Chronicle

Material is everything to a chanteuse, and in contrast to Come Away With Me, the problem here is that Jones wrote/co-wrote almost half of the Home's 13 tracks.

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20

The Guardian

Feels Like Home is so inoffensive you have trouble remembering whether you put it on.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

patrick d gave it a9:
Norah's best CD, probably. I'd give it an 8 or 9, due to the different types of sounds with the familar Norah Jones voice. It has Above Ground, Creepin' In and many other good titles. It's better than Come Away With Me.

colin l gave it a10:
Oh yes, a 10 from me. The purest voice on the planet. I have not purchased any CD's ever until I heard this voice. Keep those songs coming!

Jules J gave it a4:
There's no defining single like "I Don't Know Why," but overall this is actually a bit better than the first. So why only 4/10? Because it's still pop-lite. Norah has a nice voice, but there are times where this music is about as interesting as a phonebook. Some tracks are outright BORING, but overall it's harmless fluff, too safe like the elevator music Kenny G used to shill to millions. But, if you love Kenny G in the 90's and Seals & Croft in the 70's, whip out some white-bread, pour yourself a glass of skim milk, dim the lights and ENJOY!

Dru U gave it a 2:
Ms. Jones has one of those angelic voices you can listen to all day. This album starts off well enough with the beautiful "Sunrise" using ever aspect of that voice but then goes nowhere from there. Her first album is a masterpiece but this one falls way short. We can only hope she quickly releases a third album along the lines of her first.

Nse E gave it a 10:
Norah Jones sophomore effort is a continuation of its predecessor. A loose blend of jazz, folk and country, coupled with her clear, almost breathy vocals. Right from the beautiful surreal cover art, you know you?re in for a treat. ?Sunrise?, the lead off single, opens the cd to good effect. It?s a light, breezy song. ?Carnival town? is an excellent cabaret style number, one of 6 songs penned or co penned by Jones. ?In the morning? is another beauty, with some great bass playing. ?Humble me? is a beautiful song of contrition and forgiveness, almost Gospel like. ?Above ground?, The long way home? (with delightful guitar strumming), The prettiest thing? (very pretty song), and ?Don?t miss you at all? (a tender piano ballad which samples Duke Ellington to good effect), are other standouts from this stark, understated gem. This cd will do your collection no harm.

Hal C gave it a 3:
Norah is loaded with talent, but it needs to be spent covering other writer's material. Aside from the first cut, the others are totally forgetful, not to mention boring. I loved her debut but this effort is a huge disappointment.

Matthieu R gave it a 6:
I'm sure I'm not the first nor the last to make this observation, but this album really falls flat compared to her previous one. Whereas "Come Away With Me" was full of emotive, catchy and brooding songs, "Feels Like Home" feels like background music par excellence: sultry vocals over bland beats and rather pedestrians songwriting. It's too bad, because this singer's got talent.

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