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Are You My Mother?

Kathryn Calder

Are You My Mother?

First solo album from the member of Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers gets a delayed UK release

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7.3

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File Under Music
UK Release date
29/08/2011
US Release date
10/08/2010
  1. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    Calder has gleaned the ability to write hooky, jogging New Pornos-like anthems without the race-to-the-finish windedness of her other band
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  2. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    Calder’s confident voice and commanding presence anchors it all; she’s the one mourning, but she’ll likely wind up comforting you
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  3. 8.0 |   Q

    She has confronted death but she has celebrated life too. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It’s an album about death that reminds us what a joyous thing it is to be alive and to love and have loved
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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    There is nothing breathtakingly original here, but Calder is so adept at refining the twin crafts of songwriting and arranging that it hardly matters
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  6. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    This is a beautiful and emotionally laid bare collection of songs that only the most cold of heart wouldn’t be moved by
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  7. 8.0 |   The 405

    Calder grounds her music in a melancholic majesty, a tonal focus on life, love, death and the redemptive power of grief
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  8. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A gloriously refined record, which is sure to be a hidden gem, so don’t let it pass you by
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  9. 6.0 |   NME

    An ingénue growing into a sound of her own
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  10. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    If the album isn’t a total success, it’s at least a very good effort and hopefully an indication of good things to come
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  11. 5.9 |   Pitchfork

    Despite lots of lovely touches - namely the haunting singing saw on "Arrow" and the goosebump-inducing harmonies on the painfully intimate "So Easily" - the album feels slight
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