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8.0
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Observer Music Monthly
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8.0
6033
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Uncut
By the time the closing, “Man Of The Hour” arrives, we’ve been through the emotional blender with Ms Jones
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8.0
6083
8.0 |
Q
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8.0
6409
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The Times
Even those of us who regarded Jones as a guilty pleasure wondered if she had it in her to transcend the sum total of her influences. It seems our wondering days are over
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8.0
6502
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Eye Weekly
...finds her fulfilling her ambition and pulling off songs that will fit painlessly into a Neko Case– or Cat Power–heavy playlist
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8.0
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Daily Telegraph
She sounds ridiculously comfortable in her new sound-world
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6557
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musicOMH
The cool, light-as-air jazz-popiness has given way to brooding, understated... alt-rock
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8.0
6787
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Uncut
The Fall completes the sense of a woman sloughing off a skin to embrace a bolder, more individual path
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7.0
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Rave Magazine
It has ambitions to move beyond the lounge-jazz sounds and Starbucks success of her early work
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Spin
Who knew ol' S'Norah had it in her?
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7.0
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The Observer
It doesn't take long to realise that The Fall is unveiling a rather different Ms Jones to the tasteful, piano-led balladeer of her first three albums.
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The Guardian
Jones's cashmere voice sounds more polite than ever, creating an overriding impression of a nice girl keeping dirty company
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6.0
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Evening Standard
Chasing Pirates is the song of her career and so brave that Kate Bush would surely approve
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6448
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The Sunday Times
Jones is heading in the right direction here, leaving coffee-table jazz behind for something more challenging
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6.0
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The Irish Times
A brisk and fast-paced (by Jones’s standards) affair, which, while retaining her beautifully sultry and perfectly cadenced vocals, has a bit of ballast to it
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6.0
6058
6.0 |
Mojo
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6.0
6688
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The Independent
...the dominant instrument here is Jones's own guitar, a quivering vibrato throb at the heart of most of these tracks
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5.0
7303
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PopMatters
...this is the most sure-footed in a series of steps she’s been taking to ditch the dreamy, Downy-soft vibe of her early releases- but it hasn’t resulted in her strongest effort
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