- Record Label: Anti-
- Release Date: May 25, 2010
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MojoLaVette says thank you to the British Invasion for bringing soul back home. [July 2010, p. 103]
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Curiously, this British Invasion collection lowers the heat.
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She transforms The Word, from Rubber Soul, into a strutting funk-gospel exhortation, and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here into a conversation with ghosts from her past, but the passion she evinces grows wearying when it is for singing rather than the songs.
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For roughly half the tracks, her performances are revelatory....Elsewhere, her reinventions are less successful, perhaps because the originals themselves are so perfect, or maybe because her go-to emotional state—eyeball-scratching angst—isn’t necessarily the perfect tone for “Wish You Were Here” or “Nights in White Satin”.
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The album definitely could’ve used a little more friskiness; as it is, a horn-spackled version of Derek and the Dominoes’ “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad” and a brisk run-through of the Beatles “The Word” are the only moments where LaVette busts loose from her always heart-felt, but sometimes overly earnest, introspection.