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A Book of Songs for Anne Marie

Baby Dee

A Book of Songs for Anne Marie

Sixth studio album of chamber pop from Cleveland, Ohio performance artist

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Tin Angel
UK Release date
22/03/2010
  1. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    Dee's reference points are wholly outside of rock and pop: at a push you might imagine Peggy Lee's very strange 1956 album Sea Shells, with the vocal commitment of a Peter Hammill or latterday Scott Walker, but that's as far as it goes.
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  2. 8.0 |   Blurt

    Dee allows love's humblest pleasures to trickle through eleven of the sweetest steadiest songs
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  3. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    Completely different and completely brilliant
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  4. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    You could describe Baby Dee’s sound as midway between Joanna Newsom and Antony Hegarty — a harp is plucked, sonorous piano and keening violin gild the arrangements, her vocals tremble with histrionic vibrato
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  5. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    A thing of quiet, beguiling beauty, blending Germanic lieder and Scottish folk with Dee's unplaceable third-sex warble
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  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  7. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    The sort of record that should finally help Dee earn notice equal to that of her contemporaries
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  8. 7.0 |   NME

    A Book Of Songs is a thing of simple beauty
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  9. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Each song is like a meticulously painted and deeply quaint rural scene, but the music is mostly decorative rather than driving the songs
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  10. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  11. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    ...after a few listens it seductively slides beneath the skin, the odd beauty of her poetry making this wider release more than worthwhile
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Baby Dee: A Book of Songs for Anne Marie

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  • 2. Love's Small Song £0.99
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  • 4. Lilacs £0.99
  • 5. Unheard of Hope £0.99
  • 6. Black But Comely £0.99
  • 7. And Anne Marie Does Love to Sing £0.99
  • 8. Endless Night £0.99
  • 9. Set Me As a Seal £0.99
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