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10.0
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10.0 |
The Arts Desk
Giddens should at some point put her imprimatur on the Great American Songbook
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Irish Times
Although her performances throughout are strong and persuasive, the album doesn’t knit together convincingly
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8.0
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8.0 |
Paste Magazine
Rhiannon Giddens touches nothing carelessly, and it’s true even—maybe especially—in the songs on You’re the One— which feel the most carefree and, subsequently, the most interested in encouraging a sense of abandon and movement in the listener
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8.0
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God Is In The TV
The MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer-winner keeps taking chances, and comes out on top every time
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
You’re the One occasionally suffers from its lofty goals: “Who Are You Dreaming Of,” which sets her voice to luxurious orchestration ordinary reserved for pre-rock standards, feels oddly out of place. But on her most outward-looking record, Giddens melds the past and present, writing a bold new future for herself in the process.
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7.0
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Uncut
The countrier she keeps it, the better. Print edition only
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6.8
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Pitchfork
On her first album of all original songs, the folk polyglot seeks livelier rhythms and vocal styles infused with jazz, country, and zydeco
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6.0
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Mojo
Its dozen tunes about finding love, rejecting losers, and criticising corrupt systems are a patchwork of assorted American pops. Print edition only
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