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Q MagazineApr 19, 2012She's made an album that deserves to linger in the limelight--passionate, powerful and possessed of real star quality. [Feb 2012, p.98]
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Apr 16, 2012This is a hugely impressive introduction to a dynamic, arresting talent.
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Apr 16, 2012Ultimately, as beautiful as it is in its more subdued moments, the album feels fully realised when her alternative and mainstream instincts find each other.
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Apr 16, 2012This ability to tiptoe between opposing positions brings a pleasing depth and grain to some of her songs.
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Jun 5, 2012In comparison to the drudge that is contemporary mainstream American pop and R&B, Emeli's folk-inflected soul/pop is Nina Simone and Bob Dylan all in one.
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Aug 14, 2012[There] is lovely thematic unity, which comes close to making Our Version of Events a satisfying album experience rather than just a series of songs that are largely easy-to-love. Unfortunately, by the time Sandé finishes up with "Hope", an unusually cloying, overreaching secular prayer co-written with Alicia Keys, ballad fatigue has already set in.
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Jun 27, 2012It's a flawed yet noteworthy project that whets the appetite for Sandé's sophomore effort.
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Jun 6, 2012What's magical about this album is how Ms. Sande's stance remains unmistakable regardless of what the backdrop is. It's not a flawless album, but rather one with a number of flawless moments.
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Jun 5, 2012Rarely does a pop debut come as fully realized as this one.
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Jun 5, 2012Our Version of Events is an earnest collection of works by a woman who is as good a composer as she is vocalist, a lethal combination in today's pop music business.
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May 9, 2012A witches' broth of soothing vocals, swooshing 90s synths and computer drum beats.
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MojoApr 19, 2012Nothing here compares to opening track Heaven, Sande's ubiquitous 2011 hit, though Daddy attempts the same You Got The Love dynamic with less vital results. [Mar 2012, p.102]
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Apr 16, 2012You can't help wishing she'd put her talents to more original use, not least because when she does, as on My Kind of Love, the results are spectacular
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Apr 16, 2012Original it is not--there's little here that couldn't have come straight off a Shara Nelson album--but she does write some fine tunes
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Apr 16, 2012Disappointingly, Our Version of Events, with the exceptions of "Heaven" and "Daddy", is as flimsy and mushy as they come.
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UncutApr 26, 2012Venture further into Our Version of Events and it's clear Sande has in fact modeled herself on Leona Lewis with a series of sappy ballads bulging with lyrical truisms. [Mar 2012, p.89]
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Apr 16, 2012Her album has a preternaturally middle-aged, middle-of-the-road feel.
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Apr 16, 2012Despite her undoubted vocal talents, she doesn't possess the authority to sell the bluster of her lyrics.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 50
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Mixed: 4 out of 50
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Negative: 3 out of 50
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