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  • Summary: The first new full-length solo release for Canadian singer-songwriter Julie Doiron in nine years was recorded in Montreal.
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  • Record Label: You've Changed Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
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  1. Nov 30, 2021
    80
    She makes her latest album with a full rock band and a headlong sense of joy.
  2. Nov 29, 2021
    80
    The term "triumphant return" might be thrown around too casually, but it certainly applies to I Thought of You.
  3. Nov 29, 2021
    80
    On I Thought of You, Julie Doiron defends her crown as indie rock royalty, giving listeners yet another full-band classic that equals her material with the Wooden Stars and even Eric's Trip.
  4. Uncut
    Nov 29, 2021
    80
    Intimacy is still her trump card. [Dec 2021, p.26]
  5. Nov 29, 2021
    76
    It’s an uncanny understanding of not forcing the muse that she maintains on her brand new album, I Thought Of You.
  6. Nov 30, 2021
    75
    Throughout these songs, Doiron shines as a vocalist. She has remarkable control over her voice, folding simple sentences like origami to reveal surprising detail.
  7. Nov 29, 2021
    60
    Telling of new beginnings and lost love, the breeze in her voice and her easy-going melodies act as a smokescreen: these are often direct takes on pain.