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Holland seems confident placing herself inside a mythology much older than her years. It’s this fact, along with her penchant for lyrics about crazy dreams and old-fashioned moonshine, that make many of her songs, though originals, sound borrowed from another era.
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Every element on Springtime-- the relaxed tempos, fluid arrangements, dark moods, unobtrusive instrumentation-- is deployed in service to Holland's decidedly eccentric voice.
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Springtime is... the unveiling of a toothier sound that better reflects both Holland’s bloodiness and booziness.
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It’s simply a good album with a few really great songs.
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Under The RadarBeautiful, textured and earnest. [Summer 2006, p.90]
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Whether she's writing original material or covering traditional tunes... the effect is the same. It's intimate, like a secret told readily.
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SpinHolland swings far afield from folk and country on her third album, matching her hornlike voice to cool-jazz rhythms. [Jul 2006, p.84]
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Brutally beautiful.
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Uncut[It] is such an unassuming creation that the deceptively vast scale of its ambition only becomes apparent after several listens. [Jun 2006, p.103]
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Holland's cry seesaws from yelp to confirmation within tunes of heartache and resilience, her songwriting poetic yet blue-collar and blending that invisible socioeconomic line between genres.
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FilterShe's traded in the "Morphine" and creepy, hillbilly-chic of Escondida for a sound that's a hint more melodic and just a touch less disturbed. [#20, p.104]
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Entertainment WeeklyProof folk music shouldn't just conjure the past, but also sit down and have a drink with it in the present. [12 May 2006, p.82]
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On bluesy new tracks such as "Stubborn Beast" and "Moonshiner," she conjures a sensual, serious confidence that suggests she's ready to depose Cat Power as the queen of indie teardrop ballads.
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"Springtime" could very well be the singer/songwriter album against which all others are measured this year.
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There's a resonant bearing to the set as a whole.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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AlexWJul 25, 2006
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brendanbJul 25, 2006
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ScottYJun 24, 2006