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9.0
36098
9.0 |
This Is Fake DIY
Both varied and beautifully evocative, ‘Voyageur’ is the perfect listen for merging wintery wistfulness with ethereal wonder
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9.0
36719
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
For album after album, she has entertained and explored; now she has mesmerised. Here’s to one of 2012’s first great entries
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8.0
36304
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Put together with impeccable care and attention to detail
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8.0
36100
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
She's talented, with a fine ear for a plaintive, uncomplicated melody to support her plaintive, sometimes complicated themes
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8.0
36106
8.0 |
music OMH
In a year of powerhouse female vocalists, Edwards deserves her place near the upper ranks
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8.0
35855
8.0 |
The Independent
A work with greater resonance and presence, which might secure her mainstream success
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8.0
35857
8.0 |
The Skinny
Voyageur’s concise and intimate songs convey a universal sentiment that is not easily shaken
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8.0
35858
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
This is an album that we’ll still be listening to come next December
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8.0
35906
8.0 |
Uncut
It's hard to conceive of a more thrillingly romantic record than this. Print edition only
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8.0
35928
8.0 |
BBC
Edwards has an appeal of her own
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7.6
36293
7.6 |
Beats Per Minute
A very fine record and only a couple of songs short of a great one, with Edwards’ vocals and songs plus the warm-yet-crisp production being the main attractions
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7.0
36238
7.0 |
Blurt
Edwards is tougher than your average troubadour, but her tenacity and determination make for a striking and sumptuous encounter
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7.0
36169
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Edwards augments the coffeehouse sparseness of her writerly earlier albums with shimmery surfaces, whoosh-y hovering-spaceship bleeps and gently padding beats, which lend her songs an exquisite, widescreen beauty
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7.0
36049
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
She can finally stand loud and proud as a truly talented individual
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7.0
36145
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
A captivating, thrilling descent into loneliness and misery
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6.7
36157
6.7 |
A.V. Club
Edwards’ willingness to tinker with a formula that wasn’t broken, to stretch her legs stylistically and avoid complacency, is admirable
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6.5
35856
6.5 |
Bowlegs
The second half of the album occasionally meanders slightly off-track, but this is surely Edwards’ best full-length record yet
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6.4
36201
6.4 |
Pitchfork
She jettisons the bar-band guitars and twangy vocals in favor of a bigger sound marked by gauzy production and a fuller band
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6.0
36307
6.0 |
The Irish Times
A strong collection, notwithstanding her nod to The Cranberries (Change the Sheets), produced in a sweeping big sound tinged with regret
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6.0
36312
6.0 |
The Guardian
Softened edges and warm, full arrangements
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6.0
36383
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
Difficult to recommend to the curious but old fans should, of course, stick around
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6.0
35859
6.0 |
All Music
The folk and rock arrangements, sometimes ambient, sometimes reminiscent of Sheryl Crow support Edwards' listless, melancholy soprano singing
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6.0
36087
6.0 |
The Observer
Languid alt-country, all softened edges and warm, full arrangements, the latter the work of co-producer and rumoured beau, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver
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6.0
36109
6.0 |
Pop Matters
Voyageur isn’t a bad effort, and it kind of creeps up on you the more you spend time with it
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4.5
36026
4.5 |
The 405
It’s pleasant, it’s familiar, it’s good wholesome songwriting, but on the whole it doesn’t do anything to maintain a consistent interest beyond a few spins of the record
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4.0
35910
4.0 |
Mojo
Oddly detached and distracting. Print edition only
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4.0
35913
4.0 |
Q
Not without some good moments, but bereft of magic. Print edition only
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