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Billboard

"Faith And Courage" is head and shoulders above what came before it. In fact, it is brilliant.

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Checkout.com

There's a lot going on sonically with this album, but it feels cohesive -- all its disparate elements are beautifully brought together by O'Connor's overriding openness and passion.

Wall of Sound

Enter Faith and Courage, an album that reclaims O'Connor's status and stature as it presents us with a kinder, gentler, and matured artist who still sings like a wily archangel and writes with passionate, purposeful clarity.

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Entertainment Weekly

O'Connor's most coherent record since 1990's ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Its first single, "No Man's Woman"... contains much of what makes O'Connor's music so compelling: tight songwriting, music that borrows from traditions both antique and contemporary, and a voice that can switch from fragile to fierce in the span of a graceful note. As goes the single, so goes most of the album...

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MTV.com

Faith and Courage shows a songwriter still in command of her talents.

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Rolling Stone

Faith and Courage speaks with the jaw-clenched directness for which O'Connor is both famous and infamous.... an album of approachable pop that's both defiant and diverse and that flaunts rock's swagger, electronica's experimentalism, folk's introspection and hip-hop's social critique.

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Spin Cycle

An infectious record.

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Sonicnet

Even though O'Connor adopts a penitent tone on Faith and Courage, this album is no concession to anyone or anything. O'Connor is still O'Connor: strident, contradictory, motherly, seductive.

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CDNow

On Faith and Courage, she returns with the blend of Celtic mysticism, commercial pop, and mature themes that moved so many listeners (and units) on 1990's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, while pulling out a few trip-hop stops to keep things current.

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Alternative Press

The album sounds, not surprisingly, overproduced, lacking even a hint of the earthy quality of 'I Do Not Want...' and leaving little space for O'Connor to stretch out vocally. [#146, p.96]

All Music Guide

She sounds lonely and afraid in songs like "Jealous" and "Dancing Lessons," yet her fierce confidence overpowers such insecurity on the pinch-hitting "No Man's Woman."

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Mojo

Often, Sinead's words are infected with the pernicious post-therapy psychobabble that blights the contemporary female singer/songwriter...

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New Musical Express

Her choice of collaborators is piss-poor, and as every vocal snarl and heartfelt croon is wilfully blanded-out by the musos and their sterile embellishments, we might as well be listening to The Corrs.

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L.A. Weekly

You yearn for raw guitars, gritty beats or at least a broader dynamic range.

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Q Magazine

The results are perplexing. An artist who has made a career out of pushing herself to extremes has put together an album of pappy, poppy songs that sound like they were written between cups of tea in the garden.

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Pitchfork

While many adolescents go through mixed-up times, most have the sense not to let Wyclef Jean remix their accounts of first love into a four-minute bowl of mush called "Dancing Lessons."

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Spin

For such a propulsive controversy-magnet, her new album is awfully toothless and indistinct.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes

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jyotirmaya d gave it a6:
This album dissappointed me. I knew deep down as I purchased it that it would have some mediocre music on it as it was Sinead's 4th or 5th proper studio album. It had been 13 years since she arrived on the music scene and this ended up being her last CD of original music. I disliked much of it save for 3 or 4 songs. Later, she wisely chose traditional music and then a CD of Rasta music which fit her voice perfectly. My little songstress is back!!!

Conor D gave it a10:
Brilliant album, every song is brilliant then you have No Man's Woman & Daddy I'm Fine, unbelieveable!!!

jim gave it a 10:
Sure to move many. An album by an artist at the top of her profession.

Wendy D. gave it a 10:
"Faith and Courage" is irish meets reggae. It's a beautiful mixture and shows she isn't scared to explore her talents. Excellent CD!

Rainier B. gave it a 10:
The album is gorgeous!

Clare H. gave it a 10:
I think that Sinead O'Connor is extremely talented and her music is beautiful. She is my inspiration and I would love to write some music as good as hers.

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