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| n/a by Billboard |
While there's not a bad one in the bunch, once you've heard LaMontagne loosen up, you're left starving for more of it. |
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| n/a by www.uncut.co.uk |
While ['You Are The Best Thing'] gets the LP off to a rousing start, the song also serves a thematic purpose by celebrating the pleasures and synergy of a smoothly functioning conjugal unit--an ideal that stands in stark contrast to the romantic torment that follows. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
On Gossip in the Grain, he slides effortlessly between horn-inflected R&B and hushed Nick Drake-like folk, with stops in between for string-band country, flute-flavored chamber pop, and harmonica-stoked blues. |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
Well respected for sparse, plaintive bummer folk since his 2004 debut, LaMontagne gets a bit more expansive here, gently juking his earthy rasp with Stax-y horns, guitar twang, and lilting lady backup vocals. |
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| n/a by www.boston.com |
The intense and intensely bearded Maine singer-songwriter showcases a lighter side on his superbly crafted third disc. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
It's so earnest, you hope everything works out--so long as he doesn't steal the White Stripes drummer away from her main gig. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Now we get Gossip in the Grain, the artists most cohesive, career-defining album to date. |
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| n/a by www.pastemagazine.com |
His voice proves his best instrument, which doesnt make him any different from other earnest strummers out there. It does, however, invest these songs with a distinctively twilit poignancy. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Gossip in the Grain clearly shows he can do more than the typical singer-songwriter navel gazing. |
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