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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012Each songwriter is honored, and often improved by Rumer's thoughtful readings. [Jul 2012, p.109]
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Aug 14, 2012Yet if Rumer seems to be thinking less critically here, she sounds just as beautiful doing it.
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Aug 14, 2012Rumer can't conjure the right twinge of dissolution for Neil Young's "A Man Needs a Maid," and her lack of urgency on "Soulsville," by Isaac Hayes, is damning. But elsewhere she slides into the premise as into a tub full of suds, communing with Townes van Zandt's "Flyin' Shoes" and Jimmy Webb's "P. F. Sloan."
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MojoJul 18, 2012Boys Don't Cry is an unashamed stopgap. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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Jun 4, 2012These are organic and rich-sounding tracks that frame Rumer's voice in sparkling piano, cinematic bits of strings, rounded horn parts, the twang of the occasional pedal steel guitar, and even a poignant harmonica line.
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UncutJun 1, 2012Despite the odd longueurs, Boys Don't Cry is a heartfelt, beguiling match of singer and song. [Jul 2012, p.80]
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May 31, 2012Boys Don't Cry isn't as satisfying a release as an original album would have been. But this is the labour of love whose genesis predates her debut. And it really does sound like another season in her soul.
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May 29, 2012Boys Don't Cry works superbly as a companion piece to Seasons.
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May 29, 2012It's Tesco shelf filler, it's Father's Day fodder, it's the stack of cover versions every lazy advertising executive is craving now that Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want is all played out.
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May 29, 2012At times, they are smothered in tastefulness, all emotion neutralised.
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May 29, 2012The homogeneity of the album's arrangements effectively denudes the individual songs of their emotional power.
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May 29, 2012Obscure or not, they're songs worth learning, especially when sung as gorgeously as this.