- Record Label: Anti
- Release Date: Jun 28, 2011
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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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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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MojoNov 22, 2011Holland's singing identity still shifts disconcertingly. [Aug. 2011, p. 92]
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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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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 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.