- Record Label: Anti
- Release Date: Jun 28, 2011
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Dec 19, 2011She's never been more as completely herself on record as she is here.
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Jul 7, 2011With still improved resources and an excellent group of musicians around her-The Grand Chandeliers features Shazad Ismaily's bass, guitarist Grey Gersten, and honorary member Mark Ribot-Holland now achieves a sound she probably never imagined for herself eight or even five years ago.
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UncutJul 19, 2011Here, the 35-year -old is once again joined by co-producer/multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, who provides settings that ate mostly empty, the better to allow Holland's mystical persona to fully inhabit them, as she sings in an elongated East Texas Drawl that curls like smoke rings. [Aug 2011, p.90]
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MojoNov 22, 2011Holland's singing identity still shifts disconcertingly. [Aug. 2011, p. 92]
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Under The RadarAug 4, 2011Blood is yet another solid gold deposit in her peerless discography. [Jul 2011, p.92]
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Jul 6, 2011Holland gets points for loosening up, building a blue mood, and going with the flow, whatever that flow is supposed to be. But it doesn't keep the majority of songs on Pint Of Blood from bleeding together.
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Jun 29, 2011In lesser hands, what makes Holland such a distinctive vocalist might also limit her range, yet she inhabits these songs confidently and dexterously.
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Aug 8, 2011Recorded in various New York studios, it has a live, intimate feel despite its overdubs.
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Jun 30, 2011On her new album, Pint of Blood – which, lest we forget, is very nearly an armful – Jolie Holland adopts a new, looser working method which isn't entirely to her advantage.
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Jul 7, 2011The former Be Good Tanya quilts a quivering, affected vocal that's nevertheless warm on the lilting "Wreckage," the lower register of "Tender Mirror," and the bitter shock of "Remember."
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Jun 28, 2011She's spellbinding when she's on--aided by her penetrating and often-literary lyrics. But when her singing meanders too long without focus, you forget she's there--her energy dissipates and she blurs into background, leaving her dependent songs with nothing to do but await her return.
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Aug 8, 2011Like 2008's The Living And The Dead, Blood leans on judicious electric guitar solos, most often from Shahzad Ismaily, who co-produced the album, but also from Grey Gersten and, on one track, Marc Ribot.
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Jul 8, 2011Her fifth record is dark, even by her standards, full of bitterness and pessimism.
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Jul 6, 2011Holland sings songs of discombobulation and wonder, and all is mannered but also naturalistic.