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  • Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Canadian singer-songwriter was produced by Jim James.
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Fool
Find me when our house is empty I'm already in my new town From here, I can hear you laughing I know the sound very well I'm still your fool, I'm... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Feb 16, 2016
    80
    While Bulat’s previous sound was lovely, always tasteful, mostly mournful, here she comes arrestingly alive, invigorated firstly by the roiling emotions and rich material of a raw breakup and secondly by warm, glowing production from My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, who brings out previously lurking pop and soul tendencies.
  2. Feb 11, 2016
    80
    Basia Bulat relocates from Montreal to Louisville for her fourth album, enlisting My Morning Jacket’s Jim James for production and toning down her trademark autoharp in favour of dazzling, technicolour pop.
  3. Feb 12, 2016
    80
    It may be her most mainstream album to date, but as ever with Bulat there’s a subversive and inventive edge lurking under the surface.
  4. Feb 10, 2016
    70
    Bulat positions herself gracefully as a singer with more than one dimension, one that knows that being serious, sad, and joyful can happen in the same body simultaneously.
  5. Magnet
    Feb 12, 2016
    70
    With the help of producer Jim James, Basia Bulat brings a rich, melodramatic sheen to her confessional tales of woe. [No. 128, p.53]
  6. Feb 12, 2016
    70
    She has the talent and courage to speak from her heart and make her ideas heard. Anyone who has ever had a (broken) heart will find something they can understand on Good Advice.
  7. Feb 11, 2016
    50
    It’s a hard album to dislike, and an equally hard one to love.

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