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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
With the looks and hooks to die for, there'll soon be no mistaking this Lissie
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8.0
13588
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
As refreshing a slice of pop as these jaded ears have heard in years, channeling Edie Brickell one moment, Stevie Nicks the next, and Bobbie Gentry at will
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8.0
14034
8.0 |
Uncut
A new Queen of the jungle? Look out, tigers. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
God Is In The TV
With each repeat spin there is a celestial squawk or a taut groove you missed the first time around that rises to the foreground
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7.0
13732
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A strong debut, with a few great songs, but it will be her second album that hopefully throws up the surprises
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Catching a Tiger is pretty darn eclectic with the quality dial rarely dipping below “Danger High Voltage”
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7.0
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7.0 |
musicOMH
Has its moments of spontaneity, marking Lissie's talent for songwriting and blending genres, but also of calculated engineering, designed to make her into the Next Big Female Songwriting Sensation
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7.0
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BBC
Lissie does not fully earn her an-artist-apart stripes with Catching a Tiger, but all the signs are here. Give the girl a second and she’ll steal your heart; give her another album and she will, quite possibly, become untouchable.
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6.0
13629
6.0 |
Mojo
Ignore the hippy image; this girl has her eye on the big time. Print edition only
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6.0
13697
6.0 |
Culture Deluxe
Here’s my advice to Lissie: throw a guitar in the back of a pick-up truck, head out to Joshua Tree and come back and blow me away with your second album. Please
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Times
There are some sugary, rather pedestrian pop numbers here, too, but even these are redeemed, in part, by her powerful, indie-infused country tones
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Digital Fix
This is a solid foundation for things to come and, when the star player is this lady's very agreeable voice, those things are surely a-comin'
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6.0
13563
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The Guardian
When she forgets about record sales and allows her folk/Americana side to prevail, she creates real beauty
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6.0
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6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
How could this Illinoisan debutant create an evocative blues-infused EP, Why You Runnin, one year and produce an album lumbered with careerist country pop the next?
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6.0
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State
Lissie remains a certain talent, she just needs to be given the musical space to show it off properly
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6.0
13896
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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5.4
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Pitchfork
Her collaborators seem to have led her down the garden path, transforming some promising unreleased tracks into bland songs sapped of atmosphere and personality
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5.0
15558
5.0 |
Blurt
CAT's all over the place. "When I'm Alone" jams indulgent vocal phrasing with Buckingham-Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac
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5.0
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5.0 |
The Observer
Some of it is likable enough, the Fleetwood Mac-aping "When I'm Alone" cruises along nicely, but any rougher-edged influences have been planed smooth
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5.0
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Consequence Of Sound
Lissie steps in line behind the sterile, genre-hopping dexterity of skilled session players, appearing more like an actress in a play than the master of her own destiny
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4.0
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4.0 |
Under The Radar
Nondescript pop-rock that loses its ability to enchant with repeated listens
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