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MojoJan 11, 2012Her voice [is] a soft, soulful instrument that draws the listener in with seemingly minimum effort, then delivers whatever message she wishes to impart to willing ears. [Dec. 2011 pg. 94]
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Q MagazineDec 15, 2011There's a welcome '60s pop feel to the material, proof that Lynne doesn't need anyone else to show her how it should be done. [Dec. 2011 p. 129]
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Dec 7, 2011Revelation Road is the quietest record of Lynne's career, but it feels like her rawest, too, even as it offers, in small bits and pieces, the varying shades, complexities, and pleasures in her musical world.
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Oct 20, 2011All 11 songs here showcase Lynne's ambition and control.
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UncutOct 18, 2011That [the innocence of an idyllic childhood] was suddenly shattered when Lynne's father shot her mother and then himself, referenced with unsettling dispassion in "Heaven's Only Days Down The Road," renders the album's surrounding tender moments all the more heart-wrenching. [Nov 2011, p.91]
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Oct 18, 2011Slow, spare, and offhand, the song ["I Want to Go Back" ] admits to the restlessness that has led the gifted 42-year-old through many unpolished musical shifts, and it epitomizes the decidedly secular, deceptively low-key revelations on Revelation Road.
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Oct 18, 2011She's never tackled [her childhood tragedy in] such a head-on way and in such astonishing depth as she does on Revelation Road, a pathway that doesn't reach understanding so much as acceptance out of absolute necessity.
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Oct 18, 2011Not one single note on this record fails to contribute something to the overall mood.
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Oct 13, 2011As a whole, Revelation Road is the closest Lynne has got to where she should always have been, even if she mightn't stay here long.