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- Summary: The singer-songwriter re-records her 2010 album as an acoustic effort with guest appearances from Sam Beam, Guy Garvey, Willy Mason, and Erika Wennerstrom.
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- Record Label: Last Laugh
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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UncutApr 16, 2014It's an effective idea and an enjoyable stopgap before her next masterwork arrives. [May 2014, p.74]
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Apr 16, 2014It’s emotional, it’s hooky and it’s loveable, and as a straight-up folk record for those who’ve never heard Hoop’s sounds before, it ticks a great many boxes. But, alas, as dazzling as the album regularly is, it is a fan’s record.
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Apr 16, 2014It’s no radical reinvention, sure, but the singer captures these songs in their most up-close-and-personal state, with instrumentation stripped back to nearly zero.
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Apr 16, 2014There’s nothing on Undress that diminishes her as a songwriter; it’s just that it seems a mistake to strip some fine tracks of what made them so enthralling in the first place.
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MojoApr 23, 2014Much is intimate and seductive, but Undress emphasizes the feeling Hoop is in a holding pattern which is increasingly hard to escape. [May 2014, p.91]
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014Hoop's magic-realist folk idiom can veer a little too close to being the work of that free spirit who helps out at the health-food co-op, but here, the delicacy and subtlety of her songs is laid bare. [May 2014, p.111]