Here Is What Is - Daniel Lanois
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71 out of 100

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9.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: The fifth studio album for the Canadian singer and producer is also the soundtrack to the documentary of the same name.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. NOW Magazine
    80
    The album is chock full of solid songs.
  2. Mojo
    80
    It's top quality stuff. [May 2008, p.106]
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  3. Filter
    80
    Lanois' impeccable production outshines his songwriting, but it's truly beautiful what this man can build. [Winter 2008, p.100]
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  4. Uncut
    60
    This collection, like all of his work, conjures a world unto itself, drawing from seemingly random sources to weave a work of mystic, spiritual power. [May 2008, p.102]
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  1. DmitriA.
    10
    I'm new to Mr. Lanois' work - the first album of his I heard was 'Shine', but this album is very strong. It reaches the most important standard for music I know of: it stands up to repeated listening.… Expand
  2. AdrianB.
    9
    Lanois is still beiing busy and capable of his talents to go on futher looking fot the frontiers of music.Give the man something from the past and he creates a new "pearl"of the future. Listening to his music says that we are only at the beginning of future's miracles… Expand
  3. MichaelE.
    9
    This is a first class Lanois soundtrack album that once gain reveals that his solo albums (Acadie, For The Beauty of Wynona, Shine, Belladonna) offer the same richness and magic than the best of his production works for Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris or Willie Nelson. I love this man's voice and the way he creates nakedness and vulnerablity in his songs and instrumental pieces.… Expand

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