Children Running Through - Patty Griffin
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Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 45 Ratings

  • Summary: Mike McCarthy produced this fifth studio album for the singer-songwriter, her first in three years.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. It's the showcase of a confident singer successfully diversifying. [9 Feb 2007, p.72]
  2. Fancy up her surroundings all you want, but like another transcendent, intuitive singer-Van Morrison, in whose company she belongs-it's the way she sings... that defines her greatness, as lonely as it might be.
  3. 80
    Her songwriting here... demonstrates a depth and majesty previously absent in her work. [Mar 2007, p.82]
  4. Sorrowful and stately, Griffin's voice is a startlingly expressive instrument. [May 2007, p.125]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 29
  2. Negative: 2 out of 29
  1. ChrisH.
    10
    This album means a lot to me - the first ten tracks are a revelation and the rest still ranks among the best songs I heard this year.
  2. CharlesC
    8
    This is, without a doubt, the best album the Beatles have put out in a long time....
  3. jyotirmayaDas
    7
    "Childredn Running Through" is a beautiful album with subtle exquisite melodies and somber lyrics....It would even pass for a chamber-goth album if it weren't for Ms. Griffin's slight country twang. I listened to it lying down quietly, and there are so many things to absorb in the album. It needs maybe one or possibly two stronger songs, but that is just nit-picking. It is a lovely, beautiful record that would hold its own in anyone's CD or record collection. Expand
  4. PatrickO
    2
    Really sorta bland...

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