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- Summary: Fraser T. Smith produced the debut album from the British singer who was discovered on MySpace.
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- Record Label: Polydor
- Genre(s): Pop, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 12
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Mixed: 9 out of 12
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Negative: 2 out of 12
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Q MagazineMay 6, 2011the expectancy of being universally tipped for greatness may yet sink her, but she's delivered here. [Mar 2011, p.109]
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May 6, 2011Her Lennox-meets-Tyler, or Welch-meets-Tunstall lungs boom out across a Heart FM-friendly pop-rock sound which sometimes attains a sweeping Stevie Nicks drama but often merely reaches Dido level.
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MojoMay 6, 2011If Kate Bush backed by MGMT appeals, Maguire's your woman. [Apr 2011, p.105]
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May 6, 2011It's a cartoon of emotion: even when whispering, there's a stage intimacy about her delivery; and at full blast, she has the emotive subtlety of a foghorn, though that may be to surmount the barrage of thundering tom-toms and pounding pianos with which she's been saddled.
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May 6, 2011The production--by chart-grabbing Fraser T Smith (James Morrison, Taio Cruz, Cee-Lo)--can only bring so much depth or variety to unadventurous songs which are bellowed and wailed with all the subtlety of Florence Welch giving birth to a rhino.
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May 6, 2011Sadly, though, Ain't Nobody's by miles the most interesting four minutes on Light After Dark, which suggests Maguire is another startling talent whose every point of interest has been sandblasted off between being signed and getting her album out.
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May 6, 2011For now, though, she's no better than one of Cowell's ventriloquist dummies.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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May 25, 2011
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Sep 29, 2011
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