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Sing The Delta

Iris DeMent

Sing The Delta

Fifth release, and first for 16 years, from the Arkansas country folk singer-songwriter

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7.6

Label
Flariella
UK Release date
01/10/2012
US Release date
02/10/2012
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  1. 9.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    This is an album of rare truth and grace
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  2. 9.0 |   Slant Magazine

    There's simply no one else in popular music who tells their truths with such urgency or clarity
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  3. 9.0 |   Uncut

    A startling, inspirational comeback
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  4. 8.0 |   Blurt

    Sweeping and stirring in its emotional depth, Sing the Delta happily finds DeMent testifying to her beliefs with feeling
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  5. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    What makes this special is the quality of her songwriting
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  6. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    These songs take their time, unfolding at times over five or six minutes, the words and music slowly adding details that build a powerful feeling, picture or story
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Interlude or career resumption, this is real person-to-person music. Print edition only

  8. 7.0 |   All Music

    Like all of her albums, it's down-key, wrenching passion out of things long lost
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  9. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    These artisanal songs of love and doubt wear their homeliness proudly
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  10. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Her voice – once as clear and true as an Arkansas church bell – has thickened, and there's a professionalism here that sometimes threatens blandness
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  11. 6.0 |   Q

    Full of understated, sharply observed songs. Print edition only

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