Half The Perfect World
- Madeleine Peyroux
- Band Name: Madeleine Peyroux
- Record Label: Rounder
- Release Date: Sep 12, 2006
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100As intimate and unforced an album as I've ever heard. [Nov 2006, p.104]
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World is like stumbling into a jazz café at closing time. [22 Sep 2006, p.94]
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80Peyroux's enviable ability to sing just behind the beat conveys effortless sophistication. [Nov 2006, p.124]
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80Peyroux is a wonderful singer and this collection of songs is her best yet.
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The template holds.
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The delicateness of Half the Perfect World is certainly nice, but Peyroux seems to be using it as a device to hide behind instead of an actual expression of feeling.
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70Perfect rainy day music. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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70Fans of Norah Jones should gobble up this album, but Peyroux is no mere imitator: She's her own, very real thing.
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Much of it is polite and pretty. [21 Sep 2006, p.88]
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Only a tender take on Tom Waits' "(Looking For) The Heart of a Saturday Night" gives Peyroux the glimmer of modernity Perfect World so desperately craves. [Oct 2006, p.80]