Hotel Paper
- Michelle Branch
- Band Name: Michelle Branch
- Record Label: Maverick
- Release Date: Jun 24, 2003
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75Boasts road-toughened guitars and a welcome accusatory edge. [Aug 2003, p.116]
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67So, it's not exactly a musical revolution in the making, but it'll sure be easier to tell her apart from Vanessa Carlton from now on.
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60Sadly for such weighty themes of trust, betrayal, loneliness, living out of a suitcase and long distance relationships, the lack of true darkness amongst the sweetness and light is a little frustrating.
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60Too often... Branch expresses loneliness or betrayal or yearning without the precision or detail that would make her sentiments memorable. [#17, p.132]
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The album doesn't have the detail of character that made Michelle Branch so appealing the first time out.
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60If not as catchy (or stroppy) as Avril Lavigne, she is never less than efficient. [Aug 2003, p.102]
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Hotel Paper treads the line between rushed brilliance and rushed dross.
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The inescapable girlishness in her voice heightens the unlived-in quality of hackneyed, loverlorn ballads like "Desperately," the least desperate-sounding song of 2003. [Jun 27/Jul 4 2003, p.136]
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In the course of the album, it's hard not to notice that all the songs sound the same, and for that matter, they all sound the same as that Avril Lavigne song about the damn cold night, even if Michelle technically got there before Avril.
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40Most of the songs just lumber along at the same plodding, deliberate pace, boasting very few of the fun hooks that made her previous album so annoyingly likeable.
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KatV10It's so awesome!! I listen to it obsessively every day still!!