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Travelling Like The Light Image
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67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews What's this?

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6.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: The British singer-songwriter who has worked with the Pussycat Dolls and Sugarbabes releases her debut album.

Top Track

Shark In The Water
Sometimes I get my head in a dizzy Feeling so lost, ticking you off Now boy, you know me well Said, I’m that kind of feeling That kind of soft,... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 16
  2. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Sometimes she plays the jukebox-sweetheart card too hard, but there's enough modernity here to save Travelling from tipping into mothballed nostalgia.
  2. Its lengthy incubation process notwithstanding, V.V. Brown's clever debut album, Travelling Like the Light, is as genuine, natural, and deep as mishmash throwback pop can get.
  3. Q Magazine
    80
    Nothing quite matches that burst of bile ['Crying Blood'], but the title track--choir and all--is heavenly. [Jul 2009, p.118]
  4. Her music floats exhilaratingly outside of time, blending thumping garage-rock rhythms, doo-wop chords, Spectorian girl-group stylings.
  5. V.V. Brown is a prodigious talent who deserves to have a hit record, even if it's just to reward all the hard work that has clearly gone into this debut.
  6. VV Brown employs enough personas to suggest she’s struggling with the decision of who to appeal to. It’s a shame that she hasn’t got a voice of her own, but that’s not to say the album isn’t without its highlights.
  7. Unless you’re hyped up on a cocktail of Sunny D and Haribo yourself, you’ll find most of this album very annoying indeed.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Dec 7, 2019
    10
    An underrated masterpiece, i really loved every single second of this album.
  2. EdP
    Aug 11, 2009
    8
    Vanessa Brown (or atleast Island label) owes me an apology. It has been almost a full year since I was transfixed by Crying Blood via youtube Vanessa Brown (or atleast Island label) owes me an apology. It has been almost a full year since I was transfixed by Crying Blood via youtube and the wait for the album has been excruciating. I Expand