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- Summary: This is the fourth solo album for the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter (and occasional Gilmore Girls actor) formerly of the group Grant Lee Buffalo.
- Record Label: Zoe
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Americana
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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Entertainment WeeklyPhillips' fragile, tender songs are well suited to his uneasy protagonists. [5 Mar 2004, p.69]
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MojoA fabulous, strangely soothing listen. [Feb 2004, p.100]
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Although Virginia Creeper is a return in some ways to the days of "Dixie Drug Store" and "Lady Godiva and Me", the album is more about refinement than regression, comforting and fresh.
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This is smart, literate stuff painted on a rich canvas of pedal steel, ukulele, upright bass, strings and soft drums.
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If the tasteful, lissome country-folk backing of steel guitar, fiddle, piano, drums, and harmony vocals from Cindy Wasserman is a tad shy of adventurous, the sound suits the ripe, romantic, and dreamy mood of Phillips's songs.
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On Virginia Creeper, he shows a sharpened sense of Midwestern melancholy that is really quite appealing, despite the sometimes hackneyed musical arrangements.
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A boringly functional record full of tediously average songwriting.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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markfMar 8, 2004
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BenJAug 17, 2004
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