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| 3.5 by Rolling Stone |
What if God were a one-hit wonder? That question must have occurred to Joan Osborne in the years since her spiritually poignant left-field smash "One of Us" -- from her 1995 album, Relish -- turned th... |
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| n/a by www.cdnow.com |
Her triumphant, long-awaited Righteous Love is no carbon copy of Relish, but that's because Osborne, who's always demonstrated open ears, has continued to develop as an artist and take on additional influences. |
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| n/a by www.sonicnet.com |
Righteous Love turns out to have been worth the five-year wait, as it boasts a higher percentage of good songs than Relish, a more organic instrumental sound, and a singer whose vocal finesse now matches her raw power. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
What's missing on Righteous Love is all out excitement: the sexy holy soul that made ''Relish'' a goosebump raiser. |
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| n/a by www.mtv.com |
Very unique and very, very good....the songs on Righteous Love are brimming with the sorts of influences that you don't hear too much on the radio today: gender-bending atmospherics... Sly Stone/bar-rock amalgams... Dylan's recent haziness... |
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| n/a by wallofsound.go.com |
She's older, wiser, and more steadied in her approach across the 11 songs that make up the album, but had this disc come out in 1997 or 1998, it would've been seen as a somewhat less-impressive follow-up to Relish. |
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| n/a by www.q4music.com |
Osborne still sings well, but, apart from the late swamp-dirty sequence of Baby Love, Hurricane and Poison Apples, deadly rock orthodoxy prevails. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
To be sure, Osborne proves again she has a wonderfully rich, sensual, and powerful voice that commands respect. But besides a winning cover of Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love," she chooses to showcase it among mostly flat and/or generic arrangements. |
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| n/a by www.mojo4music.com |
A fairly routine batch of middling-to-turgid funk numbers about lurrve performed with rather more duty than excitement. |
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