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MojoJan 23, 2014Wanderlust sees the singer execute an elegant slide into a more stately kind of pop. [Feb 2014, p.88]
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Jan 16, 2014It is quirkily appealing without quite being convincing. Lacking an emotional centre, it’s not really deep and dark enough to posit Ellis-Bextor as a sensitive singer-songwriter.
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Jan 16, 2014This set of minor-chord melancholia often sounds like the product of another artist entirely.
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Jan 16, 2014Sophie Ellis-Bextor has just abandoned her electropop comfort blanket for a smothering duvet of clichés and ineffectual romanticism.
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Jan 21, 2014The tremulous piano ballad “Young Blood” is far from the dance fodder singles of Ellis-Bextor’s past, while the sombre tone of tracks like “Until the Stars Collide” suggests that she’s re-positioning herself in the prim Nordic-diva territory of Agnes Obel and Ane Brun. A good move.
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Jan 21, 2014Producer Ed Harcourt has met her mannered delivery and plummy English vowels with string-soaked arrangements but they're more saccharine than stirring.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 36
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Mixed: 5 out of 36
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Negative: 5 out of 36
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Nov 13, 2020Such a wonderful trip to a variety of musical genres. Amanzingly brilliant.