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8.0
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Daily Telegraph
With minimal electronica and stripped-back organic arrangements, Thorn’s crystalline voice is a perfect, poised focal poin
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8.0
12300
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musicOMH
This is up there with some of Thorn's best work since Everything But The Girl. Give her another couple of years and she could well be eligible for national treasure status
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8.0
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The Observer
So what might have been Cold Feet in album form is instead powerful and poignant, a thoroughly enjoyable skip through other people's misery
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8.0
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Mojo
The theme of mid-life crisis hangs over these 10 simply arranged vignettes. Print edition only
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The Guardian
Thorn's voice, rich and smooth as the most expensive chocolate truffle, brings each story to genuine life and invests it with heart-snagging emotion
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8.0
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Rave Magazine
Thorn can give Tori Amos and Fiona Apple a run for their money as chanteuses of the complicated terrain of the heart
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8.0
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The Times
Middle-aged angst gives the teenage sort a run for its money on Thorn’s latest set
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8.0
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Uncut
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Culture Deluxe
Like a fine wine, Tracey gets better with age. A must buy for fans and at least a must listen for those not familiar with Thorns earlier work
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7.0
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No Ripcord
Despite its imperfections, Love and Its Opposite remains an impressive achievement, and one that certainly merits and rewards repeated listening
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7.0
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The Quietus
With this album, she's left in everything but the girliness, and, for such a singular endeavour, it's reaped handsome rewards
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7.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
While these songs won’t set the dancefloors on fire like her past work has, it instead gives voice to a different stage of life that all of us are bound to experience once the club finally closes its doors for the night
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Clash
From electronic folk to warm, soulful country, the songs tackle the pitfalls of middle age with a stark honesty, tempered by restrained optimism
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6.9
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Pitchfork
Thorn, as always, exercises that smoky voice to great effect, her compositions resonating just as melancholy in an acoustic environment as they did in the cybernetic laboratories orated in her past
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6.0
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The Scotsman
Addresses the "war zone" of middle age with empathy and a degree of wry wit
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6.0
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The Irish Times
Her voice is as compelling as ever - not least when teamed with Jens Lekman's sonorous tones on Lee Hazlewood cover Come on Home to Me
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6.0
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Q
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6.0
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PopMatters
Taken individually, each of Love and Its Opposite’s songs is impressive and affecting. Strung together as an album, though, their sulky nature becomes oppressive
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Consequence Of Sound
Musically this is a very accomplished offering but the album leaves you wanting a few more uplifting notes to balance all the midlife introspection
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4.0
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State
The indifference of the title carries throughout the album. It is unremarkable, but far from unbearable
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