Lynn Teeter Flower
- Maria Taylor
- Band Name: Maria Taylor
- Record Label: Saddle Creek
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2007
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Throughout, a cutback on shimmery electronic effects results in a lived-in sound; there's a shabby chic-ness to these songs, and also a believability.
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Lynn Teeter Flower... delivers on the promise of 11:11.
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With more listens, the textured dynamics of Lynn become more apparent; what becomes equally apparent, however, is the lack of dynamism in Taylor's voice. [#17, p.93]
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70A winning hybrid of indie neuroses and Brill Building craft, precision and intimacy. [Apr 2007, p.120]
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70Her vocals are both pitch-perfect and emotionally resonant. [Apr 2007, p.96]
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Lynn Teeter Flower finds Taylor shaving away some of the layers from her solo debut 11:11 for more subtle ornamentation and experimentation. [Apr 2007, p.182]
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Taylor sounds too much like thousands of other winsome distaff troubadours.
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Taylor's attraction lies in her ability to switch herself effortlessly between vastly different styles.
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60There's nothing here that feels truly essential. [Apr 2007, p.122]
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It'd be nice if Taylor went easier on the introspection. [8 Mar 2007, p.86]
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60Like Oberst, the strength of her songwriting sometimes overshadows the rather interesting things going on in terms of production.
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60Lynn Teeter Flower may not be intense, edge-of-your-seat musical expression but it’s not intended to be. It is, however, a fundamentally strong pop record with enough atmosphere and beauty to ensure it resonates with a definite segment of record buyers.
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Lynn Teeter Flower isn’t bad by any means. It’s just too safe, too predictable.
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What she has done so compellingly throughout her career--evanescent moments of self-doubt given voice through melancholic bursts of catharsis--yields here to '70s singer/songwriter cliches once peddled by Carole King and later adopted by the Lilith Fair crowd. [May 2007, p.68]
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47Whether she's giving the rhythm section a cigarette break, trying to approximate the sound of an anesthetized New Pornographers, or adding the same sort of pseudo-dancey Casio flourishes that have colored her work since the first Azure Ray album, Taylor never fails to instill the same sense of inescapable inertia throughout.
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40A pretty lightweight disc.
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