Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
by Otis Taylor
  • Record Label: Telarc
  • Release Date: Jun 23, 2009
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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. AllMusic
    70
    Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs ends up being an urgent, stubborn, and sometimes overly dark view of love in all of its unavoidable permutations. In other words, it's exactly the kind of album of love songs you'd expect from Taylor, one that is direct and as baffling as it is challenging.
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  2. Boston Globe
    80
    Taylor’s tunes build and build like good dramas; he tells stories through song, and the music does the talking as much as the lyrics do.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    88
    Its songs cast the universal emotion as gentle on the surface, with a riptide, and some bubble with quickening desire.
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