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Junior could be just the thing for still-mourning Sleater-Kinney fans or anyone who likes their licks righteous and their indignation more so.
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While Junior lacks the mystifying guitar work that she built her name on, it is her most visceral and down to earth release to date.
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MojoKing's voice, whether riding roughshod over her band's new found vravura arrangements or playing the smoky chanteuse, is still a decisive instrument of its own. [June 2010, p. 99]
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Dec 20, 2010Finding her voice keeps King coming back sharper, more song and sound savvy, a commercially androgynous rockist back-and-forthing between guitar enchantment.
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King has given herself artistic license to make do with a voice that just isn't strong enough to keep up with all the interesting things going on around it.
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It's an album that manages consistency without ever letting you get settled. Where each of her records has shown her brilliant musicianship, Junior is Kaki King's finest accomplishment as a songwriter.
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Under The Radar[The instrumentals] showcase King's extraordinary playing as she blends acoustic and electric guitar to create soundscapes of lilting, often unsettling beauty. [Spring 2010, p.70]