Back To Me - Kathleen Edwards
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The Canadian singer-songwriter's sophomore release again blends country and rock sounds, and includes a guest appearance by Benmont Tench (The Heartbreakers).
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Offers up the same taut honky-tonk, high-lonesome balladry and electric-rock snarls as Failer. But the production is more direct, and her songs are more rueful. [4 Mar 2005, p.71]
  2. Back to Me is a powerful and affecting album from an artist who is quickly establishing herself as a major talent.
  3. 80
    [An] eloquent set of songs about absence and change. [Apr 2005, p.108]
  4. 60
    The more her follow-up slugs [Lucinda] Williams' bourbon'n'romance on the rocks, the drier it gets.... When she shakes it up just right on the sinister libido-rocker "Back To Me," she sounds familiar and like no one else. [Apr 2005, p.116]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Brian
    10
    I very much enjoyed the music on this album - "Back to Me" gets me going!
  2. DeanS.
    9
    Comparing Kathleen Edwards to Sheryl Crow is like calling Gram Parsons a poor man's Don Henley. I think the fact that the critic's scores range from 100 points all the way down to 40 is very telling -- this stuff resonates with some people like a steel guitar at a sound check, others apparently pan it because it doesn't have a good beat and they can't dance to it. I think a lot of the finer points of this great album are simply going over the heads of shallow listeners. From the stellar opening duo of "In State" and the title track, this disc quite simply blows its excellent predecessor out of the water. It's really less of an album than it is a compelling collection of short stories. Edwards is fast becoming the Neil Young of the new century. Expand
  3. SamD
    8
    good, but there's something missing... it reminds me too much of fiona apple's "tidal", which seems great at first, but wans very suddenly for some unknown reason. Expand
  4. RonC
    7
    Some interesting songs, but it's not "Failer".

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