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10.0
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The Times
...consuming you as utterly as a hazy flashback to mythical summers past
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8.5
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The Line Of Best Fit
...perhaps be one of the best records of January and is certainly the best album this reviewer has heard so far this year
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8.5
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The Quietus
The wonderful 'Sun Is King', a languid strum accompanied by lap steel guitar and My Morning Jacket's Jim James, is a particularly evocative highlight while the title track is a sweet as the fruit that inspired it
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8.0
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Mojo
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8.0
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Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
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music OMH
Laura Veirs makes an excellent case for herself as one of the most under-recognised singer-songwriters working today and the album's summery soul lingers long after first listen
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8.0
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Q
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8.0
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The Guardian
The tapestry of sounds is so mesmerising, it more than compensates for the odd gaucheness in the lyrics
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8.0
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The Independent
Veirs reverts to the simpler mode of her earlier records ... in order to focus more closely on her fingerstyle guitar technique
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8.0
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The Irish Times
There’s a danger that albums released in January are forgotten by the year’s end, but this one deserves to be cherished
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8.0
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The List
These 13 tracks sound remarkably re-energised while coming off as dreamy, colourful and just as inspired as ever
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8.0
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Evening Standard
The quiet and sensible girl in the corner with the spectacles and the complete lack of the Lady Gaga factor is on her seventh LP, and it really is time more people started listening
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8.0
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The Observer
...this album brims with uplifting choruses and joyful strings, perfectly capturing one summer of love
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8.0
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Independent on Sunday
This is an obliquely beautiful record, as they tend to be. Poetic and simple
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8.0
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NME
Here is a winsome, lady-driven response to the wood-chopping likes of Midlake, Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket that remains refreshingly sweet
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
July Flame, seems to have been strategically released to warm the cockles of our collectively frozen heart
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8.0
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Observer Music Monthly
Print edition only
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8.0
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State
...an album of perfected melodies, dripping in a warm, low-fi and folky atmosphere
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8.0
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Rave Magazine
Despite their paradoxes, the songs on July Flame are welcoming, and speak of an old hand who has been at this neo-folk game longer than most
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7.5
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Pitchfork
July Flame is ultimately a record that's easy to get into and just as easy to stay with
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7.0
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Clash
...songs like the title track are intricately woven tapestries of strings, woodwind and cooing backing vocals
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7.0
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The Fly
She may be midthirties, but ‘July Flame’ sees Veirs’ explore the emotions of a hazy mid-summer with wide-eyed youthfulness
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7.0
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Daily Telegraph
Veirs adds country twangs and sparse piano to her understated palette
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7.0
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Scotland on Sunday
There is an elementary playfulness... and an ability to turn that into the complex or fragile beauty
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6.0
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The Sunday Times
...her exquisite, bitingly sharp voice is front and centre... The songs may be forgettable, but her voice remains highly listenable
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6.0
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Spin
...contains mellow pleasures for patient listeners
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