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Nov 6, 2017With affectionate stability at home, perhaps she'll be emboldened to take greater risks as an artist, marking the polished, pleasurable Glasshouse not as a culminating point, but the start of a bold, new direction.
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Nov 3, 2017Though Ware co-wrote all the songs and is in full command from start to finish, the album has a stitched-together quality that starts to slowly unravel during the second half.
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Oct 27, 2017Glasshouse, Ware's third and best album, sees her transcending the limitations of that restrained style.
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Oct 26, 2017When you hear it, you can tell that these songs were bursting to get out of Ware; that she’s delivered them with such nuance and intelligence lends considerable credence to the idea that her more devoted followers have proposed ever since Devotion. She is, by a distance, Britain’s most underrated pop star.
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Oct 23, 2017Each song on Glasshouse has its own distinct aesthetic; unlike her previous albums, 2012’s Devotion and 2014’s Tough Love, there are no songs here that could be confused for each other, none that seem an afterthought carved from the greater mood of the album.
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Oct 23, 2017Each song is immaculately crafted and sequenced, yet with this many ballads, they blur: a play continually in its eleventh hour.
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Oct 20, 2017While all of this could feel a bit scattershot in lesser hands, there’s a writerly clarity to her compositions that ties them all together into a cohesive statement of marital and maternal devotion.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 54 out of 78
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Mixed: 17 out of 78
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Negative: 7 out of 78
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