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- Summary: E Street Band member and the wife to Bruce Springsteen releases her third solo album.
- Record Label: Sony
- Genre(s): Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 11
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Mixed: 4 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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Play It as It Lays is, without doubt, the record where Scialfa gives us the full fruit of her exceptional gift as a writer, a singer, as an artist.
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The sharpest, most assured, and best record of her solo career.
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Scialfa's third and most accomplished solo album.
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What makes her third album, Play It As It Lays, much more than another Springsteen-wanna-be project is the insightful female perspective she brings to these ten songs.
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Sultry suits her fine, but when she reaches for the sadness in these self-written songs, she can’t summon the sense of conflict that was embedded in ’50s pop.
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Patti Scialfa's new album is characterised by an effective combination of earthiness and poise.
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Q MagazineScialfa has surrendered and retreated into singer-songwriter orthodoxy, despite the appealing doo-wop backing vocals of 'Like Any Woman Would' and the lyrical twists of 'Black Ladder.' [Oct 2007, p.105]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 3 out of 10
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AnnJOct 29, 2007
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SarahM.Oct 21, 2007Excellent album from an overlooked and underappreciated singer/songwriter.
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PeterM.Dec 4, 2007
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Nov 21, 2021Good rock album by Bruce Springsteen’s wife highly recommended feel like you’re on a ranch.
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MattD.Oct 26, 2007Does not display the melodic gifts her previous CD has, and her singing is not enough to save the material.
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ToddW.Oct 25, 2007
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mickeym.Oct 21, 2007the singing on this album is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
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