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Peace And Love - Juliana Hatfield
Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
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  1. Mojo
    80
    Peace & Love continues this new mature streak with her most musically stripped down but lyrically most strident and complex collection yet. [Feb 2010, p. 102]
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  2. All Music Guide
    80
    Peace & Love remains something of a mood piece--it's ruminative, not rousing, never succumbing to navel-gazing but not suited for large crowds--which does mean it doesn't quite have the undeniable power of How to Walk Away, but when a softly melancholy mood strikes, this provides comforting consolation.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    75
    The songstress revisits some familiar themes in her deceptively straightforward compositions, underscoring mournful realizations with bonhomie.
  4. Paste Magazine
    71
    While her album shares its laptop atmosphere with many other troubadours plying Boston's streets, it's sprinkled with heavyweight pro touches that belie her deeper legacy.
  5. Uncut
    60
    Insular, claustrophobic, projecting a brittle vulnerability, Peace & Love requires some listner patience. [Mar 2010, p.86]
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  6. Spin
    60
    Here, awash in bedroom multitracking, she's more diffuse.
  7. Slant Magazine
    60
    If the album would benefit from more variety in its tempo and range, Peace & Love is, at the very least, a successful mood piece that proves how well maturity suits Hatfield.
  8. Pitchfork
    39
    As it is, Peace & Love sounds like a rough draft full of rookie mistakes, rather than a veteran defiantly going it alone.
  9. PopMatters
    20
    So, the album is uncool, there's that, and still too '90s to be anything different than what came before, anything less than dated.
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