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MojoIt'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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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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If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured.
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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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Recalling 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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Entertainment WeeklyThe vibe is more early Bonnie Raitt than early Sarah Vaughan. [13 Feb 2004, p.70]
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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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There simply isn't another singer working in pop music now that holds a candle to Jones.
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Instead 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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Feels Like Home is so inoffensive you have trouble remembering whether you put it on.
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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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UncutYes, it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic. [Mar 2004, p.99]
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It should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear her reach for more.
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Eventually you’re left longing for a dash of spontaneity or that the band would break into something adventurous.
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BlenderThe mood of Jones's second album is more or less the same, if slightly friskier. [Mar 2004, p.118]
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SpinA better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk. [Apr 2004, p.93]
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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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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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Q MagazineFar 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]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 34
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Mixed: 5 out of 34
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Negative: 5 out of 34
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Nov 20, 2021Good calming jazzy feel from Norah’s second album really good to relax and unwind to.
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Feb 24, 2020A very fine record, albeit tame and conventional. Norah Jones makes some wonderful pop ballads about domesticity. Her voice is incredible and soulful.
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Feb 17, 2015