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Jul 3, 2012She places faith in unremitting earnestness. It's often affecting, and draws you in at times, but somewhat smothering in its unrelenting glumness. There's also a paucity of fresh melodies here. This profoundly personal album is unlikely to woo passers-by, but loyal, long-time admirers will adore it.
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Jul 16, 2012As each of the baker's dozen tracks move at the same pace and are the same relative length (between four and five minutes), the album can fall into a rut. That's a shame because most of the individual cuts have merit. Together, they are less than their parts.
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Jul 3, 2012She's been treading water artistically for years now, recording and re-recording slight variations on the same polite, coffeehouse-folk album, and Ashes and Roses is just as lifeless as its predecessor.
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Jul 3, 2012Sadly for the listener, this is mostly a collection of one-paced songs more heartbroken than heartbreaking.