Valende - Jennifer Gentle
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77 out of 100

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8.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: 'Valende' is the third album overall and American debut for the Italian psychedelic rock band Jennifer Gentle. (Note that there is nobody in the band actually named Jennifer, and we are unsure about exactly how gentle they are.)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Stylus Magazine
    100
    Valende is really a more significant album than a lot of people seem to be giving it credit for being, and one hopes that it will be remembered as such.
  2. Alternative Press
    80
    Most of Valende's songs have that creepy nursery-rhyme thing that people who read too much Lewis Carroll would call "whimsy." [Mar 2005, p.132]
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  3. All Music Guide
    80
    As familiar as the psychedelic reference points may be, Jennifer Gentle are able to distill them into something contemporary, or at least make listeners feel like contemporaries of a psychedelic era, both past and present.
  4. Billboard
    60
    At times compelling in its eccentricities, this record emphasizes experimentation rather than tunefulness.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. charlotter
    9
    hypnotic, mysterious and...er...gentle psychedelic pop from italy's finest. "i do dream you" sounds like a lost '60's gem, but the real highlight is "circles of sorrow": almost seven minutes of sheer beauty. brilliant!… Expand
  2. AaronJ.
    9
    Very strange voice! Very naive spychedelia!
  3. JDBurton
    9
    best album i bought in a while. warm, subtle acid folk from two Italian guys who took too much lsd.
  4. LaurenceHC
    3
    Awfully unbearable! Two songs are acceptable... but the rest is hideous!

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