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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Back to Me is a bolder album [than Failer], with Edwards figuring more prominently and actively in the more personal songs. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
A gorgeous collection that is equal parts country and rock, joy and (more often than not) pain. |
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| 3 by Rolling Stone |
On her 2003 debut, Kathleen Edwards was a twenty-three-year-old folkie trawling dead-end bars and the ashtray of her mind for character sketches and tough, heart-rending tunes. She sang of alcoholism,... |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
It's not that Back to Me is an unsatisfying listen; quite to the contrary, there are some smashingly rewarding moments on this release. It's just that if you have heard Failer, you're basically heard Back to Me already. |
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| n/a by www.amazon.com |
Over the course of the album, too much of the midtempo material sounds too much the same, more inspired lyrically than musically, failing to sustain the momentum of the opening tracks. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
Haunting and carefully crafted as it is, the disc cries out for a few more variations of tone and pace. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
The only potentially bad thing about Edwards' style is that many of the tracks on the later half of the record tend to all bleed together.... That said, 'Back To Me' demonstrates Edwards' prowess as a top lyricist. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
Marred by Edwards' rather unremarkable voice. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
Edwards's lapses are largely counteracted by her sturdy melodies, her hard-hitting session drummers, and, mostly, her voice, which conveys acres of chin-up melancholy without even rolling up its heart-bedecked sleeves. |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
Edwards has a suggestively melancholy voice, a gift for well-turned phrases, and an uncanny knack for making uptempo tracks like "In State" sound as intimate and raw as her ballads. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
Back to Me is a solid successor to Failer, though at some point Edwards is going to have to toss aside the sour-relationship crutch if she truly wants to distinguish herself from the rest of the country-rock crowd. |
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| n/a by www.trouserpress.com |
An album’s worth of excellent songs performed with gusto. |
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