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Beneath the Velvet Sun Image
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

Top Track

Everywhere I Go
A good bit of me sleeps underneath In the bed of my soul lying next to belief If i toss where i lay, I may turn her away so i try to fall still,... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
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  1. 70
    An eclectic and enjoyable mixture of pop, light rock, light country, and tinny, horn-happy soul, Velvet is almost compulsively cheery.
  2. When Mullins hits his mark (as he often does on Beneath the Velvet Sun), the results constitute Southern-flavored pop at its finest. Just don't expect your world to be rocked by lyrical insights or musical innovation.
  3. Checkout.com
    60
    Sun's production is disappointingly safe, walking down a very predictable, somewhat dated road, instead of machete-chopping a path of its own.... [Its] most dazzling moments are its most straightforward -- the ones where Mullins strips away his affectations and flashes naked emotion.
  4. Beneath the Velvet Sun is the uneven work of a talented artist who doesn't seem to trust the idiosyncratic approach that brought him to national attention enough to really let himself go. You can hardly blame him for trying to play it safe, given his one-hit wonder status, but the album's very bow to commercialism may keep it from being the hit it might have been.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    50
    It's Richard Marx filtered through Beck. [10/27/2000, p.121]
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  1. JasonM.
    Dec 18, 2001
    10
    One of the best albums I've owned. A leap of faith from one good song on the radio. A touch of the South and truw enjoyment of making One of the best albums I've owned. A leap of faith from one good song on the radio. A touch of the South and truw enjoyment of making music. Not a bad guy. Expand
  2. VivianV.
    Mar 22, 2002
    10
    I haven't stopped listening to this album since I got it 3 months ago- I know every note in every song, and I never tire of it. I haven't stopped listening to this album since I got it 3 months ago- I know every note in every song, and I never tire of it. It's an incredible production. I rank Shawn Mullins right up there with Little Feat and Jimi Jamison of Survivor- sheer brilliance.This album has prompted me to purchase 'Soul's Core', which is equally incredible. Collapse
  3. JarmilaK
    May 19, 2005
    10
    My goodness, this album is very very very good just like all the others he has made. He really is the best according to me. I can't stop My goodness, this album is very very very good just like all the others he has made. He really is the best according to me. I can't stop listening to this cd. I'm addicted to it! Expand
  4. DianaS
    Sep 15, 2005
    10
    I think this is Shawn's best cd yet, and I love them all! A while back I lost my cd case and my entire library of cd's. I think this is Shawn's best cd yet, and I love them all! A while back I lost my cd case and my entire library of cd's. Shawn's cd's were the first ones I sought to replace. Keep up the good work Shawn. Expand