Lodestar
by Shirley Collins
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Nov 4, 2016
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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 2 out of 5
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  1. Mybabyblue
    Jan 15, 2017
    0
    This album is basically just her talking about how she loves be on drugs... shame on you .
  2. whatdoyouread
    Jan 15, 2017
    0
    Do not listen to this drug spot . .

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98
#98 Best Album of 2016

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Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. The Wire
    Dec 21, 2016
    80
    What makes Lodestar a genuine progression from what has gone before--is the sinking and deepening of her voice. It is still neutral enough to act as the conduit it always has done, but the milkmaid’s lilt has been transformed into a maven’s burden. [Dec 2016, p.55]
  2. Magnet
    Dec 15, 2016
    75
    What's striking is how her voice, which once epitomized the prototypical fair young maiden, remains just as compellingly austere. [No. 138, p.55]
  3. Clash Music
    Dec 5, 2016
    80
    She embraces their words, often of death and reminiscence on youth, as if they’d come from deep within herself. It is, after 38 years, a fine reminder of her vital place in British musical tradition, as the essential elder stateswoman of folk.
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