The Foundling - Mary Gauthier
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  • Summary: The autobiographical The Foundling is a concept album produced by Mike Timmons of the Cowboy Junkies.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Uncut
    100
    Not since Lennon howled "Mother" have there been songs as naked and fraught as "Mama Here, Mama Gone" and "March 11 1962." [Jun 2010, p.88]
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  2. Mojo
    80
    Whatever you're doing, I guarantee you'll stop and listen to every word. [Jun 2010, p.102]
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  3. BBC Music
    80
    The Foundling isn't a lot of fun, but it tells a very sad story with bleak eloquence.
  4. PopMatters
    Dec 13, 2010
    60
    The Foundling is certainly Gauthier's least showy album, which is saying something. It's also a notch or two down from her best, due to a handful of songs (mostly in the album's latter third) that aim for Gauthier's typically hard, simple honesty and instead land in the territory of gloomy repetition of aches and pains one would expect from this type of project.

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