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9.0
8573
9.0 |
musicOMH
This dreamy, warm and otherworldly concoction is the perfect antidote to the grey and chilly beginnings of the impending new year
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8.0
9161
8.0 |
The List
Cat-Power-esque and sprinkled with Au Revoir Simone Casiotone beats
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8.0
8535
8.0 |
The Skinny
Songs like the otherworldly Joints or the PJ Harvey sound-a-like No One Just Us suggest that she has the talent to carve out a long, successful career
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8.0
8560
8.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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8.0
8561
8.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
9218
8.0 |
The Irish Times
There’s much enchantment at play on The Magician’s Private Library as Miranda jumps neatly from one beautifully embellished, fully imagined tune to the next.
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8.0
9256
8.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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8.0
9818
8.0 |
Under The Radar
While Brooklynite Holly Miranda is barely past her skuzzy bar phase, she proves she has the potential to be a certified Big Deal on The Magician's Private Library
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7.0
9378
7.0 |
Rave Magazine
Has all the requisite charm to make an appearance in your CD collection before the year’s end, but it’s sometimes too somnambulant for its own good
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7.0
9284
7.0 |
The Fly
‘The Magicians Private Library’ deserves a place in your record collection, just don’t ask where to file it
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6.7
9439
6.7 |
Pitchfork
...there's an inherent modesty involved in Miranda's personality as a performer. All that makes her a welcoming, supremely likable figure, but it also puts her in danger of blending in with her surroundings
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6.0
9452
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Next time, Miranda should find a less brilliant producer — one who'll serve her songs, not swamp them
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6.0
9310
6.0 |
The Observer
Miranda's solo debut takes her headlong down Sitek's rabbit-hole into an underworld thick with wooze and brass
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6.0
9232
6.0 |
The Guardian
it's impossible to say how much Miranda is responsible for the shimmering, luxuriant music on this album, and how much was conjured up by her magician of a producer, TVOR mastermind Dave Sitek
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6.0
8559
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Like Annie Clark on the stunning Actor, The Magician’s Private Library finds Holly Miranda equally as fascinated by the jarring juxtaposition between the gorgeous and the disgusting
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6.0
9200
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Holly Miranda makes nice music, sometimes really pretty, but it doesn’t say anything real or move emotions to anywhere even nearing an extreme
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6.0
8809
6.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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4.0
9897
4.0 |
PopMatters
An anemic batch of songs that drifts by in a blur - albeit a rich, multi-hued blur
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4.0
12438
4.0 |
Eye Weekly
Holly Miranda’s lyrics are inspired by her lucid dreaming, and though they’re sparse, they’re still convoluted
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