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By focusing less on quotidian (i.e., boring) experiences of the proletariat and more on less-tangible allusions to death, troubled romance, and loneliness, Wagner's music is simply more approachable and meaningful, if still hard to puzzle out in its specific intent.
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Alternative PressIt's clever, literate and pretty, but also boring as hell if you don't flip off the lights, clamp on your headphones and concentrate. [May 2002, p.88]
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BlenderWhat Led Zeppelin did for bombast, Lambchop try to do for delicacy. [Apr/May 2002, p.114]
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'Is A Woman' is a deep, rewarding, frustrating, baffling, engaging experience then, an album that drifts away from you just when you're getting hold of it.
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Every song contains four or five things that will just whip your head around in disbelief.
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MagnetThis soggy, after-hours feel also permeates Is A Woman, although the ensemble sound has been pared to the bone. [#53, p.83]
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MojoThese gradual pleasures fly in the face of today's pop/rock hardsell, for sure, but inexorably you are drawn into Kurt's world. [Mar 2002, p.100]
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Lounge-rock for world-weary sophisticates.
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It's a brave and curious record that, as on 'Bugs', occasionally resembles Willie Nelson fronting Labradford.
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For all its minimalist musical approach and inherent gloominess, Is A Woman over time proves a creative masterstroke.
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Minimal and huge at the same time, desperately sad in places, thought-provoking and ethereal in others, this is an incredible milestone of a record.
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A strange delight of a record.
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The album sounds full whether you're in the next room or sitting right beside the speakers. Details -- a horn here, a steel guitar there, a lilting piano figure that appears out of the ether -- fill every cranny in a sound that's still as spacious as Giant Sand's Southwestern soundtracks.
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As an experiment in consistency, Woman is an unqualified success, but it's hard not to occasionally miss the unpredictability of the past.
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The WireA record that urges you to lean closer to the speakers in order to fully hear everything that is being played and sung. [#216, p.63]
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UncutAnother mature masterpiece from America's finest. [Album Of The Month, March 2002, p.94]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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calimerosmixApr 5, 2005one of the greatest music's that they have
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MattyMApr 9, 2004
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GavH.Oct 17, 2002Just kept replaying it, however not as many times as Nixon