• Record Label: Verve
  • Release Date: Sep 16, 2016
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Mojo
    Sep 19, 2016
    80
    The French singer renders smoky blues. [Oct 2016, p.100]
  2. Sep 19, 2016
    80
    Secular Hymns feels like you are sitting in the front row of an intimate Peyroux concert.
  3. Sep 19, 2016
    80
    Secular Hymns is very close to the feel of a Peyroux live show, and one in which she’s clearly having a ball.
  4. Sep 19, 2016
    80
    With composers ranging from Stephen C Foster to Tom Waits, Willie Dixon to Linton Kwesi Johnson, the only subject they seem to have in common is life itself, but the candour of Peyroux’s approach, the warm intimacy of her voice and the incisive clarity of the arrangements draw them together.
  5. Oct 6, 2016
    70
    Peyroux offers fine performances, but they are hers and not the originals.
  6. Uncut
    Sep 23, 2016
    70
    Peyroux's smoky, Holiday-esque voice has seldom sounded finer as the trio's jazzy ambience is lent a wonderful natural reverb by the vaulting acoustics. [Nov 2016, p.35]

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