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8.0
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8.0 |
The Digital Fix
This isn’t just a vanity project: Mother is about excellent musicians playing at the top of their game
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7.9
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7.9 |
Paste Magazine
A good, at times even great, start to a solo recording identity for Natalie Maines, but lacks only in the listener’s greatest desire, to learn more about Maines
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7.3
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7.3 |
The AU Review
Mother may be missing the usual Maines fire, but the spark still remains
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
The album is at its strongest when, as on its centerpiece cover of Jeff Buckley’s otherworldy “Lover You Should’ve Come Over”, Maines’ extraordinary vocals are allowed to run freely over material that is up to her power
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6.0
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6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
A suite of songs about the open wound that is life. All very authentic and in the room
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6.0
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6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Mother, co-produced by Maines and Ben Harper, is a rock album, with nary a fiddle or pedal steel in earshot. It's serious and at times grim, full of midtempo songs in brooding minor keys
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6.0
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6.0 |
All Music
While Maines' singing is the glue that holds everything together, the set's overly polished production and the scattershot curation of the material makes it feel like more like just a haphazard collection of songs than a cohesive album
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6.0
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6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Mother is rarely anything more than a reminder that Maines is a gifted, dynamic singer—and that's something that's been apparent since 1998's Wide Open Spaces
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