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Nov 10, 2014What we find with Tough Love is an album just as conceptually focused as Devotion, yet too willing to waste Ware’s sophisticated emotionality on tracks with no depth or purpose to them.
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Oct 22, 2014What she's lost in subtlety she's gained in star power, off the back of two years of touring and a slow-burning hit album.
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Oct 20, 2014Ware continues to express a multitude of emotions with superb elegance. The material, unfortunately, is on a lower plane.
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Oct 16, 2014It’s the most chart-friendly songs, such as the swaying Ed Sheeran co-write Say You Love Me--still whispery-smooth, but a bit more “there”--that immediately register; the rest of this intriguing album takes its time to blossom.
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Q MagazineOct 6, 2014It's mainly successful: co-written with Ed Sheeran, new acoustic single Say You Love Me may ebe a relation of Extreme's More Than Words, but elsewhere stories are told more vividly, with non-showboating vocalist Ware infusing the songs with restrained emotion. [Nov 2014, p.114]
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Oct 6, 2014It is tempered and classic-sounding. But the sounds are as itchy and oppressive as they are tasteful.
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Oct 28, 2014Her off-kilter stance on traditional soul-pop helped her stand out from the crowd. Now, it's hard not to think she's content playing the part of another pretty, predictable voice.
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Oct 20, 2014Tough Love relies more on gravitas, allowing more space for overly serious numbers like the Emile Haynie-produced “Pieces”. Sometimes sweetness works better.
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Oct 14, 2014It’s a record that masks its lack of content under swathes of super-hip production tics.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 76 out of 88
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Mixed: 4 out of 88
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Negative: 8 out of 88
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