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Graphic As A Star - Josephine Foster
Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. All Music Guide
    80
    While all of Foster's work is provocative, this proves the warmest, loveliest, and most beautifully articulated recording in her catalog.
  2. Tiny Mix Tapes
    80
    With Graphic As A Star, she's delivered an intimate reading of a revered American poet and made it entirely her own, creating her most beguiling work yet in the process.
  3. Clash Music
    60
    There isn't much of a sense of flow to the album; the songs stand on their own as the poems were meant to stand on their own.
  4. Mojo
    60
    Foster's extraordinary voice is suited to Dickinson's poignant rhymes, and tracks like They Called Me To the Window and I see Thee Better -- In The Dark, are concentrated, exquisite and oddly moving. [Feb 2010, p. 101]
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  5. Dusted Magazine
    60
    Ultimately, as the disc draws to a close and one hushed sonic wisp after another drifts by, justice is done to neither Foster's considerable talents nor Dickinson's genius.
  6. PopMatters
    60
    Foster has proven her mettle enough times to excuse a slight misstep, which in comparison to previous recordings and some of the works of her contemporaries, isn't so much a misstep as a slightly less imaginative showcase of her talents.
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