- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
For an artist whose reputation for painstaking perfectionism and poetic acumen is legendary, Little Honey is too much saccharine and not enough substance.
-
When she’s hurting, she can still sear. [But] too often here, though, Ms. Williams gets bogged down turning her magnifying glass back on music making.
-
Upon first listen Little Honey is quite jarring for all of its textural and production shifts and dodges, but in time it settles into the listener as a mixed collection of decent songs that pack some punch, but no jaw-dropping wallops.
-
While Williams generally sticks to her strengths and suppresses most of her more unsavory musical habits, she maintains her curious reliance on tacky AABB rhyme schemes and lyrical clichés.
-
Williams does sound inspired, and there’s an energetic current running through Little Honey that was missing on previous records.
-
MojoLittle Honey is, then, a something for everyone offering. And a few will be disappointed. [Nov 2008, p.104]
-
The happy-in-love rockers are doggedly inessential, but ballads such as 'The Knowing' and 'Plan to Marry' redress the balance beautifully.
-
Q MagazineFor such a distinctive voice, disappointingly run of the mill. [Nov 2008, p.123]