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100After only a few spins, The Greatest sounds like another [masterpiece]. [Feb 2006, p.84]
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The Greatest isn’t perfect, but its stumbles are neither intrusive nor damning.
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In its own still-quiet way, it's a triumph.
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The rare album that works even better in execution than it does in theory, one that rises far above the genre exercise it could have been. [#12, p.90]
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90By putting some warm flesh on her musical bones, Chan Marshall is punching her considerable songwriting weight. [Jan 2006, p.116]
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90Similarly to Lambchop's Nixon, it weaves together new and old, soul and country, black and white, love and hate, to form an understated masterpiece. [Feb 2006, p.74]
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This will be on most of the indie-ish year end tops charts this year, guaranteed.
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90The writing here is sharp and stunning, but the real difference between this and other Cat Power discs is that The Greatest has room to breathe.
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Never so flatly confessional as to be artless, her plaintive sentiments are still nakedly honest, strangely restrained yet unfettered. Still, Marshall's singing occasionally feels distant, negating the intimacy. [22 Jan 2006]
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Marshall wanders into lulling Orton/Portishead turf so often that it's easy to imagine some of these songs oozing out of the PA system at your local Banana Republic. [27 Jan 2006, p.80]
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Despite losing creative momentum down the stretch, it’s still a remarkably affecting and mature record, proof that Chan Marshall kicks off the second act of her career in top form.
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