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Jan 17, 2012Employing help from not only Vernon, but also Norah Jones and Francis and the Lights among others, Voyageur is a true gem.
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Jan 11, 2012Voyageur is gorgeously weathered Âheartbreak, straight from the gravelliest Ontario roads.
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Mar 21, 2012The album, as intended to be heard, deftly captures the whiplash mood swings of a volatile relationship, showing how giddy exuberance and bitter despair can intertwine.
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Feb 10, 2012Both varied and beautifully evocative, Voyageur is the perfect listen for merging wintery wistfulness with ethereal wonder.
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Jan 17, 2012The indie-leaning direction of the album suggests that the Canadian singer-songwriter is coming into her own.
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Jan 18, 2012Edwards succeeds in stepping out of the Americana territory where her first three records resided.
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Jan 17, 2012It's a refined, seasoned effort, alternating between country-tinged folk and leisurely paced rock.
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Jan 12, 2012The arrangements, though, are far more expansive, all gorgeously produced and delivered with subtlety.
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UncutJan 9, 2012It's hard to conceive of a more thrillingly romantic record than this. [Feb 2012, p.85]
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Jan 9, 2012It's the performances and songwriting, however, which invite most acclaim.
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Jan 9, 2012It's a progression that largely works.
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Jan 9, 2012The result is a work with greater resonance and presence, which might secure her mainstream success.
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Jan 20, 2012Voyageur is a very fine record and only a couple of songs short of a great one, with Edwards' vocals and songs plus the warm-yet-crisp production being the main attractions.
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Jan 17, 2012This is still Edwards' show, though, with appealingly plain-spoken story-songs that share little (in a lyrical sense) with Vernon's willfully opaque word-music.
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Jan 17, 2012Though at times deeply affecting, Voyageur is not the great statement of a record one might hope for after a four-year absence.
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Jan 17, 2012Voyageur makes for a captivating, thrilling descent into loneliness and misery.
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Jan 17, 2012Voyageur resonates with the kind of drama and daring that Edwards has been perfecting all along.
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Jan 17, 2012Sounds lusher, more dramatic and sometimes riskier than Ms. Edwards's early albums. In places, this record is drowsily beautiful, almost wearily so.
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Jan 17, 2012Edwards augments the coffeehouse sparseness of her writerly earlier albums with shimmery surfaces, whoosh-y hovering-spaceship bleeps and gently padding beats, which lend her songs an exquisite, widescreen beauty.
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Jan 13, 2012Whilst Vernon's production does add a glossy sheen, Edwards' captivating character is ultimately untouched and as a result, she can finally stand loud and proud as a truly talented individual.
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Jan 9, 2012Voyageur improves on its predecessor by feeling both more intimate and more boomingly spacious--it helps move her away from the middle.
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Jan 17, 2012The key, though, is finding balance within this sonic shuffle, something Edwards hasn't done quite yet.
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Jan 18, 2012Edwards often sounds lost in these new songs.
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Jan 17, 2012Overall, Voyageur isn't a bad effort, and it kind of creeps up on you the more you spend time with it.
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Jan 17, 2012They're such pretty songs, sung with sweet simplicity.
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Jan 9, 2012She manages to sing through her torment on Voyageur, in hope that the journey is ultimately redemptive.
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MojoJan 31, 2012Gradually swelling guitars, keyboards and massed backing-vocal "aaaahs" homogenise the sound while mostly confining Edwards' high voice to a rather inexpressive tone when her clear-cut words suggest snarl and sorrowing. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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Q MagazineJan 10, 2012Not without some good moments, but bereft of magic. [Feb. 2012 p. 104]
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