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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for singer-songwriter Johanna Warren was influenced by her time quarantining in Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Record Label: Wax Nine Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Uncut
    Nov 22, 2022
    80
    Johanna Warren’s sixth solo record is as masterful as it is enchanting. [Oct 2022, p.36]
  2. Mojo
    Nov 22, 2022
    80
    Warren's razor-sharp lyricism - and her ability to deliver hard truths and cold comforts s gracefully - ensure Lessons For Mutants is endlessly compelling. [Dec 2022, p.85]
  3. Nov 22, 2022
    70
    Lessons for Mutants, is a hard one to review. That’s meant as a compliment. ... It is itself a mutant, or in any case, mutable. The more you play it, the less it consents to take shape.
  4. Nov 22, 2022
    60
    Stylistically uneven, unsettled set, though one never loses the sense that Warren is presenting a central, ill-fated-relationship narrative.
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Jan 4, 2023
    10
    The album is not one heavily produced, multi-layered, with several songwriters tinkering with its strong lyrical presence. It is actuallyThe album is not one heavily produced, multi-layered, with several songwriters tinkering with its strong lyrical presence. It is actually crystalline and pure. From the joyfully bright and sweet I'd Be Orange, to the crackling Piscean Lover, to the sombre and somewhat balladlike Oaths, to the folkish :/, the album never fails to present its vast array of emotions and the amazing professionality of the artist who made it. Expand