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Boys

Cortney Tidwell

Boys

Second album from the Nashville-based alt country singer/songwriter

ADM rating[?]

5.9

Label
City Slang
UK Release date
22/06/2009
  1. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Tidwell is probably still best known for Ewan Pearson’s danceable remix of ‘Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up’, and while there are several tracks on this album which deserve to challenge that, if it is to remain her commercial high-water mark then it is surely only due to her apparent refusal to compromise her terms
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  2. 7.0 |   Pitchfork

    Tidwell does at least deserve to be reckoned as St. Vincent's peer-- her music may not be as brightly likable as Annie Clark's, but Tidwell is a more compelling vocalist and more stylistically omnivorous to boot
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  3. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    At its best... Boys offers overwhelming proof of Tidwell’s capacity at once to lull and to unsettle the listener with a voice that soars, swoops and disarms utterly
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  4. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    If there are moments when your finger wavers over the skip button, Tidwell rewards your patience with the aching closer Oh, Suicide. Bleak and beautiful
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  5. 5.0 |   NME

    What nags is the suspicion that much of this second album is a holiday in eclecticism and she’s most at home when she settles on songs that float on otherworldly charm
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