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- Summary: 'Escondida' marks the first solo studio disc for the Texas-born folk singer-songwriter who also co-founded the Canadian group The Be Good Tanyas.
- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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Starbucks should replace Norah Jones with Holland as its mood musician of choice; her compositional brew is smooth, with jolts of witty malice.
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Holland gracefully achieves the spookiness and timelessness artists like Tori Amos and Cat Power have been chasing for years.
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She sounds as distant as much of the Anthology of American Folk Music, and yet there is an intimacy to her songs. This is a singer/poet who really feels things. And this is the new, weird America, and Holland is singing its woes with a wisdom far beyond her age.
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A listening experience that is singular, startling, and soulful.
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Q MagazineHer jazz-tinged voice soars; the music manages to be both wonderfully austere and subtly strange. [Jun 2004, p.98]
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Musically, Holland could be considered the more eccentric and authentic second cousin of Norah Jones.
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Her music embodies a dyed-in-the-wool timelessness that can't be counterfeited.
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SaraBJun 5, 2004Jolie is the best thing to happen to music since the gee-tar.
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JohnMApr 8, 2007I call this lazy, Sunday morning music but I play it all the time. Beautiful
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JulieJMar 28, 2005Mad Tom of Bedlam makes me crazy.
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AlexWJul 30, 2006Fantastic. The best artist I have come across in quite some time. Holland can sing the blues with the best of them.
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JimmyJazzJun 2, 2004Brilliant.
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