Reprieve
- Ani DiFranco
- Band Name: Ani DiFranco
- Record Label: Righteous Babe
- Release Date: Aug 8, 2006
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It's beautifully committed music--the kind that's as essential now as it has ever been. [11 Aug 2006, p.67]
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Intimate and organic. [Sep 2006, p.74]
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80Another reassuringly exceptional album.
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70Reprieve is probably the easiest album to listen to that she's ever made. [Oct 2006, p.104]
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The downside of Reprieve is that it isn't as musically arresting as earlier albums like Out of Range, and DiFranco, on a song like "Millennium Theater," can be rather obvious.
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Much of Reprieve sounds, appropriately enough, like DiFranco is taking a much-needed breather.
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70Musically, the album is more languid than earlier efforts without sacrificing the urgency of her patented guitar pluck-strum.
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70Reprieve may not court new members to the Church of Ani, but it may well be one of those albums that fans hold up as an underappreciated favorite in the years to come.
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67An arresting mix of the singer's political and personal strife set to a jazzy backbeat.
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60Milky keyboard washes and found-sound accents... give the music a darker, dreamier depth. [Sep 2006, p.100]
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60Generally solid with more hits than misses, but my usual advice to DiFranco still applies: don't record everything you write – wait a few months and give us the best ones.
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Subtle sounds -- acoustic instruments, electronic tones, environmental noises, distorted echoes -- well up around her, and they open up pockets of shadow around her usual pinpoint clarity. Now the atmosphere is as important as the words.
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