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Me And Armini
by Emiliana Torrini
The latest album for the Icelandic singer was produced by Dan Carey.
| LABEL: |
Rough Trade |
| RELEASE DATE: |
09 September 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Alternative, Pop |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
87
Paste Magazine
There is most certainly a parallel universe in which Emilana Torrini is the Next Big Thing.
80
All Music Guide
Me and Armini emerges as an album suitable for bookworms and beach bunnies, homebodies and world travelers, dancers and wallflowers. Highly recommended.
80
musicOMH.com
This feels more polished product and will no doubt have a broader appeal as a result, but it is a treasure of a thing and the more people that hear it the better.
80
Slant Magazine
Accompanied by sultry electric guitar licks, reverb-y finger-snaps and breathy grunts, 'Gun' might be one of the sexiest bloodbaths on record--and the highlight of an album that's filled with them.
80
Uncut
This album subtly expands her metrical, folksy songcraft to the point where songs like 'Heard It All Before' and 'Fireheads' are just one spoonfed breakbeat from being charttoppers. [Oct 2008, p.113]
80
Q Magazine
Me and Armini isn't an immediate record--it's too opaque, too guarded for that--but as it gives up its secrets, it slowly moves its stuff into your mind, a strange cuckoo in the musical nest. [Oct 2008, p.151]
80
Mojo
Emiliana is blessed in her musical collaborator Dan Carey, with whom she calibrates an acoustic-led chamber trip-hop with plenty of room for her voice to breathe. [Nov 2008, p.111]
70
Spin
Torrini's much more engaging, though, when cooing Me and Armini's less flamboyant folk pop. [Nov 2008, p.102]
70
Prefix Magazine
Me and Armini merely falls short of being as fully conceived as the astonoshing "Fisherman’s Woman."
70
Blender
Torrini captures a few joyful infatuations followed by a lot of lingering wounds; she’s vulnerable but never conquered.
70
Drowned In Sound
It's more adventurous than the album prior–-and generally more successful in this eclecticism than her debut, certainly--yet that Torrini’s best work lies ahead of her seems indubitable.
60
PopMatters
Ultimately, however, Me and Armini is basically just an above-average batch of pop music that, while generally not on par with her last album, does occasionally match it’s high standards in warmth and candor.
60
The Guardian
A chunk of Me and Armini revives that gentle acoustic mood: these tracks are beautiful in their way, mournful and gossamer-light, but insipid compared with the album's more inspired moments.
60
Under The Radar
The third album from the Italo-Icelandic Torrini juggles successfully with a plethora of genres. [Year End 2008, p.83]
59
Pitchfork
Torrini's voice is pleasant but also pretty anonymous, so it's therefore well-suited to any number of (mostly mellow) musical settings.
The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
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