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  • Summary: The second album for the Stars/Broken Social Scene singer features guest appearances by Stars' Evan Cranley, The Stills' Liam O'Neil, and Feist.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 11
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  1. Uncut
    80
    Freed from Torquil Campbell's mannered indie melodrama, she gives full rein to her inner country girl. [Jan 2010, p. 121]
  2. The music lover in Millan finds that stability in other people’s songs.
  3. Millan's "plain jane" delivery may be occasionally sleep inducing, but it's comfort, not boredom that delivers the serotonin.
  4. Mojo
    60
    The songs barely disturb the dust in the room as they gently tip-toe about, Millan's lazy drawl far less deliberate than the clipped enunciation she often exercises on Stars' chamber pop. [Feb 2010, p. 102]
  5. Her sound sure is pretty, but it doesn’t hook you in the way, say, Cat Power’s self-destruction does.
  6. Q Magazine
    60
    In comparison, the second solo album from Broken Social Scene/Stars vocalist Amy Millan can't help but seem just a little routine. [Jan 2010, p. 126]
  7. Like a lot of great records, Masters Of The Burial is minimally arranged, slowly performed and quietly recorded; but there's never a spark here because Millan doesn't give enough of herself to it.

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