Critic Reviews
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Mojo
The bluegrass scene is now offically in touch with its feminine side. [Sep 2001, p.96]
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| 90 |
Billboard
A subtle masterpiece...
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
Krauss' dominant balladry sails on a brand of depression that's altogether timeless.
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CDNow
Whatever the source, each song is given a finely detailed treatment that gets to its emotional core, and the exquisite engineering allows each nuance to add to the total effect.
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| 80 |
HOB.com
Alison Krauss & Union Station has a voice like honey, raw and honest and sweet, and she wraps it lovingly around these achy ballads and American Gothic lamentations.
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Sonicnet
Alison Krauss & Union Station are one of the best instrumental bands in acoustic music today.
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| 75 |
E! Online
Krauss is blessed with one of the most coolly beautiful voices on record, and she's often better than her material, which is once again the case here.
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Blender
On the whole, it's an inventively played, not-quite-straight bluegrass album... [Aug/Sep 2001, p.124]
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Q Magazine
New Favorite is pretty much the usual, if still wonderful, music from Krauss and Union Station. [Sep 2001, p.110]
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
One of the few creatively adventurous singers to maintain a presence on country radio, Krauss continues to subtly press the boundaries of her sound, but it's hard to imagine anything on New Favorite alienating the masses.
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| 50 |
All Music Guide
The whole album feels a little too slick and reverbed-out... While there are intriguing moments in the album, it lacks the spark that So Long So Wrong had in spades, and even their few moments on the O Brother soundtrack seemed to breathe more life into the band than New Favorite does.
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