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- Summary: This is the latest album for the California singer-songwriter, who started out as the nanny to Tom Waits' children.
- Record Label: Vanguard
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental, Singer-Songwriter
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Top Track
| Murder of Birds | |
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| I'm not a bird I'm a murder of birds Shifting my shape When your tongue finds the words Like I hate you when I Love you the most Love you the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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Sure she's unconventional, a bit puzzling but in the end she is undeniably rewarding and compelling. Hell, come to think of it, Hunting My Dress might be one of 2010's most pleasant surprises.
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It's far more fun, however, to sit back and appreciate the album as the dawning of a new, unique voice which, through its influences (both obvious and not-so), is blending styles and carving a niche in to the increasingly crowded canon of independent and original female artists.
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Q MagazineHunting My Dress rejoices in an off-the-cuff dreamlike sensuality, pitching and rolling in all sorts of pleasingly unexpected directions. [Dec 2009, p. 115]
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By drawing from her vast catalogue of experiences, she finds the scope for an engaging range of musical tangents. Yet somehow, she has made an album which is not confused or disjointed.
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The moods and stylistic leaps made on Hunting My Dress are all the more impressive when you consider how well the album hangs together.
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This is a contemporary collection of eclectic modern folk songs by a bold woman who has more in common with an interesting raft of contemporaries than her mentor.
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Hoop is an undeniably charismatic musician, but her music will benefit from a more natural and organic absorption of these impulses. In other words, she doesn't need to work so hard to prove anything.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Dec 30, 2010
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May 25, 2011
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BenedictD.Feb 2, 2010Deserves much wider acclaim. Fantastic.
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