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Quiet Signs
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84

Universal acclaim - based on 23 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 50 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the Los Angeles singer-songwriter is her first recorded in a professional studio.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Q Magazine
    Feb 4, 2019
    100
    Quiet Signs is an utterly captivating record from its first second to its last. [Mar 2019, p.116]
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  2. PopMatters
    Feb 4, 2019
    90
    Teasing out musical abundance from simple instrumentation, lyrics, and vocals, Pratt concertizes complexity and nuance. Quiet Signs is a staggering work of hushed beauty.
  3. Pitchfork
    Feb 8, 2019
    84
    The nine songs here follow their own innate paths, often beginning with a simple acoustic arrangement before blossoming into vivid daydreams.
  4. Mojo
    Feb 4, 2019
    80
    Over and over again, Pratt hovers on the brink of revelation, yet Quiet Signs puts down a code, that, brilliantly, it's not quite possible to break. [Mar 2019, p.89]
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  5. The Skinny
    Feb 7, 2019
    80
    Pratt’s voice is still gorgeously muffled and her words remain indecipherable at times. But while she may have once sounded fragile, here she is almost swaggering.
  6. Exclaim
    Feb 5, 2019
    80
    Quiet Signs is a breeze of an album that somehow hits you like a ton of bricks. Just another enigmatic turn for Jessica Pratt.
  7. The Guardian
    Feb 8, 2019
    60
    Quiet Signs has a slightly jazzier, more soulful feel than her last, folkier outing, with a faint nod to Joni Mitchell on Poly Blue and perhaps even a hint of the Drifters’ On Broadway to the beguiling, sumptuous Here My Love.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. pedroflores
    Feb 8, 2019
    10
    What an album! Pratt shows how terrific she is at making music, this sounds otherworldy and has become an instant favorite of mine.
  2. NormanAlee
    Sep 24, 2020
    10
    The beauty of this hidden at first listenings. But after.... It's best female folk album. Million times better than the whole Tailor Swift discography
  4. sammyanthony
    Feb 12, 2019
    8
    Life of a struggling woman in many aspects, especially love, is described through old-fashioned but beautiful way Jessica Pratt did. MostlyLife of a struggling woman in many aspects, especially love, is described through old-fashioned but beautiful way Jessica Pratt did. Mostly accompanied by acoustic guitar, her voice dove deep in the eerie, obscured by the misty ambiance. She seems really wanted to be unknown by covering her feelings with coded messages.… Expand
  5. musicwizard636
    Mar 21, 2019
    7
    Such a simple album doesn't need a dense review. Jessica Pratt isn't reinventing the wheel here. She is singing her songs. Her beautiful,Such a simple album doesn't need a dense review. Jessica Pratt isn't reinventing the wheel here. She is singing her songs. Her beautiful, dreamy songs.… Expand
  6. Mook19
    Sep 1, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Delightful, beautiful and fabulous to bonk to! The music chills you right out and the unique sounding vocals takes you far away!… Expand
  7. spenceryang8
    Feb 22, 2019
    6
    Quiet Signs is a meager helping of Jessica Pratt's pretty and subtly psychedelic style of folk songwriting.

    FAV TRACKS: FARE THEE WELL,    Quiet Signs is a meager helping of Jessica Pratt's pretty and subtly psychedelic style of folk songwriting.

    FAV TRACKS: FARE THEE WELL, HERE MY LOVE, POLY BLUE, CROSSING

    LEAST FAV TRACK: OPENING NIGHT    … Expand
  8. Mayfieldja
    Feb 18, 2019
    5
    Quiet Signs is eerie and somber with hopeful tones that are brought forth over a simple structure. Pratt’s style most likely resembles theQuiet Signs is eerie and somber with hopeful tones that are brought forth over a simple structure. Pratt’s style most likely resembles the singer-songwriter style of the late ’60s and early 70’s and it’s not unpleasant but even at only a 27-minute runtime, Quiet Signs is a real chore to get through.
    Tracks to enjoy: “Poly Blue” & “This Time Around”    … Expand

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