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- Summary: The latest album for the folk singer from Colorado was based on some of Emily Dickenson's poems.
- Record Label: Fire
- Genre(s): Rock, Folk
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Positive: 2 out of 6
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Mixed: 4 out of 6
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While all of Foster’s work is provocative, this proves the warmest, loveliest, and most beautifully articulated recording in her catalog.
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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.
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MojoFoster'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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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.
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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.
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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.