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- Summary: The singer/songwriter's sophomore set (delayed for a year due to an acrimonious split with her record label) includes collaborations with k.d. lang and Cyndi Lauper.
- Record Label: Black Dove
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop, Singer-Songwriter
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Do you know you're always on my mind I know we seek and we shall find Somewhere to go Mother please I'm feelin low as can be When will they see Do... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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Not every moment is essential, but compromise just isn't part of McKay's dazzling, defiant repertoire.
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Adding some range to the offbeat persona she presented in 2004's "Get Away From Me," McKay comes on as a Harlem Holly Golightly, a twentysomething social activist with a disarming mastery of pop vernacular -- pop in the broadest sense, embracing cabaret, show tunes, old standards and a bit of '70s rock in the vein of Elton John and Cyndi Lauper.
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Pretty Little Head sounds like a record from a woman coming out of girlhood -- more confident, more wise about love, and more focused about her concerns, if no less passionate.
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She's bewildering.
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Alternative PressWhat... is immediately evident is the extent to which McKay has grown as a musician. [Feb 2006, p.130]
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The stream-of-conscious raps that peppered her debut have been scaled back, replaced by relatively more traditional compositions, but the music is still deliciously unpredictable, and the words are a pack of SweeTart poetry.
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It's one thing to be eclectic; it's another thing entirely for an album to lack a cohesive conceit that connects one track to all the others.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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JaneKNov 8, 2006The best album of the year hands down
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NelliefanMcKayOct 31, 2006
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CaseyWOct 31, 2006Nellie is perfect and can do no wrong.
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JohnRFeb 22, 2007
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GilesBNov 29, 2006great album let down by one or two really annoying tunes
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ReubenFDec 18, 2006
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