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Turn Out the Lights
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83

Universal acclaim - based on 24 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 47 Ratings

  • Summary: The second full-length studio release for the Memphis singer-songwriter was self-produced and mixed by Craig Silvey.
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I'm staying in tonight I won't stop you from leaving I know that I'm not what you wanted, am I? Wanted someone who I used to be like Now you think... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. No Ripcord
    Nov 7, 2017
    100
    These are songs that you feel more than listen to. Everyone has encountered some sort of mental illness, addiction or crisis of faith, whether in your life or another’s. Not only does Baker prove that you’re not alone, but she finds a way to make it better.
  2. Exclaim
    Oct 24, 2017
    90
    Baker is careful not to glorify life's darkest moments, and certainly doesn't on Turn Out the Lights. Rather, her candid portrayal of pain is a rare and beautiful gift.
  3. The 405
    Oct 30, 2017
    90
    What elevates Turn Out The Lights is that it’s sensory as well as earnest, personally destabilising while artfully assured; it oscillates in the spilling synaesthesia of panic attacks, the dizzying clarity of epiphany, the paralysing futility of depressive episodes, the unfathomable locus of being okay.
  4. Uncut
    Oct 23, 2017
    80
    Lights may be bleak, but that only makes the moments of catharsis all the more illuminating. [Dec 2017, p.22]
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  5. Punknews.org (Staff)
    Oct 27, 2017
    80
    Turn Out The Lights is a powerful listen, teaching you to live with your failures and fears, and to move from coping with them to actually loving them.
  6. Clash Music
    Nov 6, 2017
    70
    A record bursting with artistic emotion and vulnerable resilience.
  7. The Skinny
    Oct 23, 2017
    60
    Baker doesn’t shy away from the weight of depression, but depending on your emotional state, the album is either cathartic or overbearing.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Music_Observer
    Nov 2, 2017
    7
    Baker is without a doubt a strong songwriter, and while not reaching a height of true mastery due to some lapses in harmonic language andBaker is without a doubt a strong songwriter, and while not reaching a height of true mastery due to some lapses in harmonic language and melodic tightness, she still produced quite a beautiful work that can stand on its own within this soft, songwriter atmosphere with a few highlights worth listening to over again. My Score: 133/180 (Solid) = 7.4/10… Expand
  2. All_ButTrU4
    Nov 28, 2021
    7
    songs that you feel more than listen to. Everyone has encountered some sort of mental illness, addiction or crisis of faith, whether in yoursongs that you feel more than listen to. Everyone has encountered some sort of mental illness, addiction or crisis of faith, whether in your life or another’s. Not only does Baker prove that you’re not alone, but she finds a way to make it better.… Expand

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#72 Best Album of 2017

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