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Aug 24, 2012Havoc and Bright Lights is as soothing as a Sunday afternoon nap or a warm bath: it's music for when you know you're right where you want to be.
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Aug 28, 2012Her syntax can look clumsy on paper, almost like she's trying too hard to express sentiments than make statements, but on record her words seem to flow and fit the music perfectly.
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Aug 30, 2012While it may be a difficult task to get through all 12 psycho-babble-filled tune on havoc, it's not entirely a wash or without merit. Ultimately, if you're not into hearing someone use their artistic expression to vent their frustrations and contemplate fairly uneducated meanderings on the current social state, or you're not struggling with your own identity lacking the mental capacity to understand your surroundings, you need not apply.
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Q MagazineAug 24, 2012By the end you might feel like you've just had your ear bent by a particularly forthright mum outside school gates, but Havoc and Bright Lights is Alanis Morissette's most inviting album in a long, long time. [Sep 2012, p.103]
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Aug 28, 2012Her seventh LP brings the mama drama.
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Aug 27, 2012Unfortunately, too many of the songs on Havoc lack that specificity and Morissette's inimitable POV. Her best material has always traded in forces of tension and change, but she spends most of the album sounding like she's leading a meditation.
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Aug 27, 2012For the most part these songs are entirely lacking in bite, dragging through limp soft rock and even softer sentiments.
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UncutSep 14, 2012Mostly, though, Morrisette succumbs to her dual predilections for quasi-spirituality and stultifying sappiness. [Oct 2012, p.84]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 54
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Mixed: 10 out of 54
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Negative: 7 out of 54
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