- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Release Date: Jun 10, 2008
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If Alanis lacks breadth in terms of her subject matter, and she does, she makes up for it in the rich variety of styles that have influenced each track.
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As ever, she provokes both compassion and impatience.
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Producer Guy Sigsworth (Seal, Björk, Madonna) adds a touch of Eurodisco to her infatuation-junkie rambles.
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While Morissette’s weaknesses are the same--her lyrics are still overwrought, as though torn from some broken-hearted schoolgirl’s diary-–this disc is an easier pill to swallow than her last couple.
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Flavors of Entanglement is better than expected, but not as strong as we hoped it would be.
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Canadian firebrand loses her spark.
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MojoThe Ottawan's new record abounds with moments most arresting for the crazy chutzpah with which she'll shoehorn a line of verse into a line of music whose rhythm puts the stresses on all the wrong words. [July 2008, p.104]
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Q MagazineMorissette is rarely dull, but she can occasionally be wearying. [July 2008, p.107]
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"Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" was emotionally complex but never without a nerve; the new Alanis, it seems, has many things to say, but they're all half-formed and stuck inside her head.
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On some tracks, Morissette’s voice channels Björk (with whom Sigsworth has also worked), but the mood ultimately switches to watered-down Evanescence.
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Psychology textbooks are less linguistically challenged and just as littered with cases of emotional breakdowns. [June 2008, p.114]
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She has fresh relationship issues to work through on Flavors of Entanglement, her first set of new tunes since 2004, but she has difficulty striking a balance between soul-searching and dance grooves on a set that doesn't distinguish itself with either.
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UncutIt's the no-frills productions like 'Not As We' which stand out, although these are marred by the lyrics--a mess of self-help-manual platitudes and environmentally minded bollocks. [July 2008, p.104]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 70 out of 82
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Mixed: 7 out of 82
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Negative: 5 out of 82
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Nov 11, 2011
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Aug 1, 2022
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Nov 25, 2021This album is Alanis Morissette 101: great voice, clever lyrics and a good production