Feels Like Home
- Norah Jones
- Band Name: Norah Jones
- Record Label: Blue Note
- Release Date: Feb 10, 2004
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90Far from rehashing her debut, she's made an older and wiser sequel, where the quiet magic of each song gets stronger with every listen. [Mar 2003, p.101]
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90There simply isn't another singer working in pop music now that holds a candle to Jones.
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This is no more a perfect album than "Come Away With Me," but its highlights again carry the stamp of a singer whose talent is strong and whose vision is true.
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83Instead of making any stupid concessions to her sudden celebrity... the Home girl plays it cool, carrying on with the same smooth vibes that made her a star.
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83A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk. [Apr 2004, p.93]
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80Recalling Come Away With Me only for Jones’s sultry voice, the album has its share of pleasant throwaways, but those are balanced by a handful of starkly beautiful and excellently arranged songs.
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80It's similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art. [Mar 2004, p.92]
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A soft and amiable album that frames Jones' "soft-focus Aretha Franklin" voice with a group of songs that are as classy as they are quiet.
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The most heartening thing about Feels Like Home is the utter absence of fussiness, or second-album overthink. It extends the Come Away With Me template while never echoing the earlier songs.
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It should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear her reach for more.
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There are moments when Feels Like Home feels too maudlin ("Humble Me") or overly subdued ("Carnival Town"), but it's a generally winning collection of finely polished (albeit innocuous) gems.
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The vibe is more early Bonnie Raitt than early Sarah Vaughan. [13 Feb 2004, p.70]
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70Eventually you’re left longing for a dash of spontaneity or that the band would break into something adventurous.
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70Yes, it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic. [Mar 2004, p.99]
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70The mood of Jones's second album is more or less the same, if slightly friskier. [Mar 2004, p.118]
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If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured.
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Material is everything to a chanteuse, and in contrast to Come Away With Me, the problem here is that Jones wrote/co-wrote almost half of the Home's 13 tracks.
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Endlessly pleasing (or trying to please), Feels Like Home dilutes even Jones’s brand of comfort-food jazz, grinding it down to something like a chewy gob of baby food.
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20Feels Like Home is so inoffensive you have trouble remembering whether you put it on.
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patrickd9
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colinl10Oh yes, a 10 from me. The purest voice on the planet. I have not purchased any CD's ever until I heard this voice. Keep those songs coming!
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