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Wonderfully soothing, late-night music that is simply beautiful.
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Alternative PressThe disc Ryan Adams keeps threatening to make but never quite delivers. [Mar 2006, p.126]
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MojoSimply played, gently sung, graceful, literate, folk rock. [Apr 2006, p.98]
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If there’s a weakness to Makers, it’s the occasional unmemorable tune in the album’s middle section.
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For what it is, namely a strong, if somewhat benign, collection of songs from a weather beaten soul who plays a mean guitar, Makers is a therapeutic listen with a gentle, if somewhat morose, melodic sensibility.
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Entertainment WeeklyPretty rainy-day music. [24 Feb 2006, p.65]
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It demonstrates that simplicity is a viable option for accomplished songwriters.
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Q MagazineVotolato invokes real empathy with the drifters, losers and hard-done-by who populate his songs, not unlike a more folky Elliott Smith. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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Votolato has a lot to offer as a musician, but his songwriting veers into stale territory too often over the course of 12 songs, neglecting to pull itself from its many holding patterns in time for salvation.
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Paste MagazineThere isn't much to distinguish him from a million other talented but interchangeable coffe-shop-circuit troubadours. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.95]
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Proof that you can take the boy out of the emo band, but you can't take the emo out of the boy.
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Unfortunately, bare-bones arrangements, train songs, and good intentions are no shortcut to supposed authenticity, and still less are they a guarantor of overall quality.
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MagnetOn Makers, Votolato rarely digs deep enough to scar, and he tends to wander where he thinks inspiration might live instead of letting it find him. [#70, p.110]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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TravisBFeb 5, 2006
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NChandlerFeb 1, 2006
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AndyJan 30, 2006