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Dec 20, 2011The album is full of the complex love songs and working-class vignettes that McKenna is so good at... [filled] with McKenna's usual grace and subtle poetry.
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Mar 21, 2011It could have been mawkish but it's a simple, affecting and lovely tribute.
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Feb 22, 2011Lorraine is evenly split between mercilessly detailed songs like these and frustratingly blank ones ("Sweet Disposition," "Rocket Science"), which feel like hollow templates designed to be inhabited by other, less imaginative singers. On those songs Ms. McKenna sounds complacent; discomfort suits her better.
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Feb 22, 2011Lorraine is a real high-water mark for the Stoughton singer-songwriter, featuring 13 perfectly crafted gems of observational insight.
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Feb 22, 2011Quietly and artfully, if not especially dynamically, McKenna unearths striking truths about the fragility of life and relationships.
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Feb 22, 2011While that may be true to McKenna's roots and doesn't pull focus from the songs themselves, it also makes the latter half of Lorraine a drag.