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BillboardSaadiq's production is brimming with horns and seriously in-the-pocket rhythm sections, but there are also enough hip-hop touches and contemporary arrangements to keep the tracks in the now. [24 Mar 2007]
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If not a beginning to end classic album, it's full of potential classic tracks.
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The sonic texture is compelling, yet few tracks have melodies that stick; these are more grooves than songs.
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The record is low on saccharine balladry, high on rhythm protein.
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Mojo[Introducing] contains her best songs and most relaxed, assured performances. [May 2007, p.112]
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With the fast-maturing Stone gaining greater control of her powerful pipes and a recent breakup adding to the underlying sexual tension while stoking the creative fire, the craftily reconstituted 70s R&B concept works exceptionally well.
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While there are a couple of moments of over-singing and vocal affectation, Introducing Joss Stone is a dramatic leap forward creatively, without straying too far from the sound that made Stone famous.
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This is her best album to date.
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Introducing Joss Stone has the sound of an artist who is beginning to go places, not of one coming from somewhere or standing still.
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It’s a shame that Stone and Saadiq fall for the name-dropping approach to making records; inserted like ad-breaks, the guests are easily the worst thing on the album, giving a strong whiff of one of those horrible kitchen-sink-and-rolodex stinkers in the middle of a really very good, if conservative, soul record.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 39
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Mixed: 8 out of 39
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Negative: 1 out of 39
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Nov 25, 2021Joss Stone's voice is breathtaking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nov 25, 2021Joss Stone most personal album yet is also one of her best work, I love her voice so much
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Nov 24, 2021Joss Stone's most personal album yet, she does an amazing job here and her voice is still marvelous