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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length studio release for the Australian alternative singer-songwriter was produced with Stella Mozgawa.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Nov 8, 2021
    100
    A fully realized crystallization of her melodic instincts and the themes that she’s previously explored. She wrote most of the album in 2020, holed up alone in a Melbourne apartment while riding out the Covid-19 pandemic, and as such a sense of solitariness permeates its 10 songs.
  2. Uncut
    Nov 8, 2021
    90
    Worth waiting for, waiting for. [Dec 2021, p.23]
  3. Mojo
    Nov 8, 2021
    80
    For a record about captive states - isolation, anxiety, romantic hope - Things Take Time, Take Time knows how to move. [Dec 2021, p.85]
  4. Nov 9, 2021
    80
    It’s a strange mixture of comfort and malaise, but it’s probably the most honest document of the past eighteen months, too.
  5. Nov 12, 2021
    80
    What results are an array of kinder, softer songs that still fit cozily into her output.
  6. Nov 11, 2021
    75
    A few songs drag a little, but even those have interesting flourishes.
  7. Nov 15, 2021
    59
    There’s nothing on this third round that shocks or surprises, it’s all standard formula Barnett except for her witticisms being down-played slightly, and maybe her watered-down mope-rock influences are a little brighter on her sleeve.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Nov 26, 2021
    10
    - "Don't stick that fork in the toaster, baby life is like a rollercoaster"