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MagnetWhile it is technically flawless and masterfully executed, it makes for awkward listening. [#74, p.102]
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MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)So much that is sprightly about the debut is subsumed here by ambition, to be kind, and privilege, to be brutally accurate. [Feb/Mar 2007]
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Rolling StoneHard to stomach. [19 Oct 2006, p.134]
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Unfortunately, the grand concept appears to have been a bit too ambitious for the 24-year-old Newsom and her associates to pull off, since what she plucks and sings in her little-girl-lost warble never seems entirely integrated with the hovering orchestral parts that sound like bleed-over from a symphony rehearsal in the room next door.
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Positive: 309 out of 373
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Mixed: 16 out of 373
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Negative: 48 out of 373
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Dec 11, 2010
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kishaandraApr 13, 2010
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gNov 17, 2006album of the year... if Darwin is to be believed, newsom's record will survive as a classic for hundreds of years. seriously its THAT good