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The Fall

Norah Jones

The Fall

Fourth album from American jazz / blues singer-songwriter with a more rock sound

ADM rating[?]

7.0

Label
EMI
UK Release date
16/11/2009
  1. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    By the time the closing, “Man Of The Hour” arrives, we’ve been through the emotional blender with Ms Jones
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  3. 8.0 |   Q

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  4. 8.0 |   The Times

    Even those of us who regarded Jones as a guilty pleasure wondered if she had it in her to transcend the sum total of her influences. It seems our wondering days are over
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  5. 8.0 |   Eye Weekly

    ...finds her fulfilling her ambition and pulling off songs that will fit painlessly into a Neko Case– or Cat Power–heavy playlist
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  6. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    She sounds ridiculously comfortable in her new sound-world
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  7. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    The cool, light-as-air jazz-popiness has given way to brooding, understated... alt-rock
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  8. 8.0 |   Uncut

    The Fall completes the sense of a woman sloughing off a skin to embrace a bolder, more individual path
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  9. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    It has ambitions to move beyond the lounge-jazz sounds and Starbucks success of her early work
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  10. 7.0 |   Spin

    Who knew ol' S'Norah had it in her?
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  11. 7.0 |   The Observer

    It doesn't take long to realise that The Fall is unveiling a rather different Ms Jones to the tasteful, piano-led balladeer of her first three albums.
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  12. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Jones's cashmere voice sounds more polite than ever, creating an overriding impression of a nice girl keeping dirty company
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  13. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    Chasing Pirates is the song of her career and so brave that Kate Bush would surely approve
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  14. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Jones is heading in the right direction here, leaving coffee-table jazz behind for something more challenging
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  15. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    A brisk and fast-paced (by Jones’s standards) affair, which, while retaining her beautifully sultry and perfectly cadenced vocals, has a bit of ballast to it
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  16. 6.0 |   Mojo

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  17. 6.0 |   The Independent

    ...the dominant instrument here is Jones's own guitar, a quivering vibrato throb at the heart of most of these tracks
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  18. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    ...this is the most sure-footed in a series of steps she’s been taking to ditch the dreamy, Downy-soft vibe of her early releases- but it hasn’t resulted in her strongest effort
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