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May 13, 2014Despite the serious subject matter, Unrepentant Geraldines has a lightness--and even creative joy--that makes it a thoroughly enjoyable listen.
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May 16, 2014What emerges is undoubtedly her strongest record since the post-9/11 opus Scarlet’s Walk, several tunes even managing to best that album’s preoccupation with Americana, and our relationships to each other culturally and to the land itself.
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May 29, 2014Folks will either freak out over this album or abhor its very existence, and that is exactly what makes it so good.
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MojoJul 24, 2014Punchy, seductive, surreal. [Jul 2014, p.92]
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Jun 4, 2014Unrepentant Geraldines has an irresistible lightness of touch about it: its charms initially seem modest next to the towers of ambition Amos has previously created, but the generosity of melody and sheer prettiness of the sound wins through in the end.
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May 13, 2014Her fans will be glad to hear the muse has finally led Amos back to making the type of carefully crafted but pleasingly quirky pop music that helped make the singer-songwriter’s name in the ’90s.
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May 12, 2014his has long been Amos' calling card, this shimmering space between comfort and pain, but Unrepentant Geraldines trumps its predecessors by accentuating its polarity; it either seduces with its sweetness or it provokes with its pain, and either extreme is compelling.
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May 9, 2014Unrepentant Geraldines is personal and political and refreshingly void of marketing gimmicks or befuddling collaborations. Rather, Tori just comes bearing songs straight from the heart/head/hands/Hell.
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May 9, 2014Like most of Ms. Amos’s albums, her new one revels in multiplicity and mannerisms; she’s not afraid to warble. The lyrics wander between myth and realism, the personal and the political.
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May 13, 2014Despite the nods to “Strawberry Fields Forever” on opener “America,” Unrepentant Geraldines bridles and bristles against the constraints of pop music.
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MagnetJun 18, 2014Amos delivers another set of stirring songs tempered and emboldened by years of experience. [No. 110, p.53]
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May 13, 2014In the end, Unrepentant Geraldines goes far to re-establish the sense of intimacy that won Amos her audience’s unwavering devotion; there’s a level of honesty characterizing the project that should jibe well with them, and she’s in confident voice throughout without ever sounding canned or over-calculated.
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UncutMay 9, 2014Stripped back to voice and piano, it's difficult not to recall early Kate Bush, but Amos' lyrics maintain a multi-layered depth that is uniquely hers. [Jun 2014, p.71]
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Under The RadarJun 6, 2014All the usual thematic motifs make an appearance, for good or ill. [Jun/Jul 2014, p.84]
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May 29, 2014With a smooth, olde worlde sound, appealing melodies and impressionistic imagery, the album, at best, conjures up affecting vignettes and, at worst--Giant’s Rolling Pin, about the NSA/Edward Snowden affair--borders on the twee.
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May 9, 2014Geraldines is still rife with the inevitable “bad” Tori songs that seem to be a mainstay for Tori records lately.... The bright spot is that there are only four of these songs, one of which is still fairly salvageable, making the number of great tracks far outweigh the bad ones.
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May 9, 2014Unrepentant Geraldines is more likely to thrill old fans rather than win new ones, but her voice has rarely sounded as powerful or pure.
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May 15, 2014Amos manages to weave her own mythology into larger fantastical stories, and fight societal norms in the process, all with a fierceness that will please old fans and likely win over new ones.
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May 12, 2014If Unrepentant Geraldines is indeed visual art, it's more of a polite Norman Rockwell than a vomit-stained Sherman. The former goes great with dinner, but I await the gastric upset of the latter.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 125 out of 134
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Mixed: 2 out of 134
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Negative: 7 out of 134
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