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90Wildflower moves Sheryl Crow one step closer to Hall of Fame status.
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The album seems to be one of her most consistent records and one of her best.
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80A provocative, richly rewarding set reflecting love and life changes. [1 Oct 2005]
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70Wildflower is more satisfying, less self-consciously searching for radio-friendliness [than C'Mon C'mon]. [Nov 2005, p.100]
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70Wildflower is assiduously intimate: lushly orchestrated, strictly mid-tempo and abundant with musings about balancing freedom and love. [Oct 2005, p.136]
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Crow typically does "melancholy" with panache, so more's the pity that Wildflower often sounds outright dull.
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Along with glimmering guitars, she brings on the strings. She risks turning doubly pompous when she combines cosmic thoughts and big baroque production. Most of the time, Ms. Crow gets away with it. [26 Sep 2005]
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70When Wildflower works, it works beautifully.
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It all shows Crow as smart and mature. But the giddy-kid part of her is missed. [25 Sep 2005]
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60Almost every track plays nice sweet-and-sour tricks on the ears. But maximum, piercingly intelligent, heartfelt Crow comes through only in Sending A Letter To God. [Oct 2005, p.98]
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60There are moments of genuine heartbreak amid the musty gloom. [Oct 2005, p.115]
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It's not just that the album would be more fun if it rocked harder; all too often on these songs she's straining for high notes or stranded in an arrangement that leaves her voice sounding breathy and reedy
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A collection of introspective songs that's heavy on the flower and hardly wild. [Dec 2005, p.107]
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Throughout the album, Crow's vocal melodies are her most ambitious and memorable to date.
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Her fondness for overblown L.A.-rock cliches undercuts the intimacy she's after; the music sounds homogenized. [7 Oct 2005, p.77]
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30It's all too dull to make anyone care but Crow.
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30Where Wildflower fails is in almost everything.
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