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9.0
8261
9.0 |
musicOMH
Corinne Bailey Rae has completed a remarkable comeback, against titanic odds, and for that she should be applauded. But to do it with a record as powerful as this is extraordinary
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8.0
8353
8.0 |
Q
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8.0
8516
8.0 |
The Guardian
Even allowing for occasional swoops into blandish neo-soul, Rae has made an album she'll have trouble bettering
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8.0
8520
8.0 |
The Independent
It's an impressive example of a performer growing up in public
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8.0
8568
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
...she expresses an inspirational warmth, honest talent and humble grace of a woman who’s paying tribute to a love with the power to “outrun the sadness
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8.0
8422
8.0 |
Uncut
She has been listening, apparently, to Sly Stone and Curtis Mayfield, and has taken on board the way Nina Simone could flick a switch between absent-minded harmonising and entering the abyss
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8.0
8461
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
The Sea is simultaneously sweet, poignant and, more than anything, quietly inspiring.
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8.0
8585
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Unquestionably, The Sea confirms Bailey Rae as a near-major talent, although the price she's had to pay is surely too great. All we can do is wish her wel
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8.0
8610
8.0 |
The Observer
...this singular album is saturated in feeling and graced by superior musicianship
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8.0
8615
8.0 |
The Sunday Times
The prettifying that made CBR’s debut too polite for some tastes has all but disappeared here
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8.0
8624
8.0 |
The Digital Fix
The whole album, she tells us, was made to try and impress Jason Bruce Rae. It can’t fail
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7.0
8606
7.0 |
Independent on Sunday
...throughout The Sea her vocals have taken on a smoky quality that lends depth to even the more lightweight material
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7.0
8680
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Fragile arrangements - guitar, auto-harp, orchestra - suggest indie rock... as much as R&B
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7.0
9394
7.0 |
PopMatters
...an album of sultry grooves and deep emotion, on which Rae finds a kind of peace—if only in beautifully embracing her art again, amid loss and mystery
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6.0
8467
6.0 |
Spin
The mournful ballads are achingly pretty, but Rae is most compelling when trying to distract herself from her loss
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6.0
8629
6.0 |
The Scotsman
A whole ocean of grief and pain worked out mainly in the soothing soul-pop tones which first brought Bailey Rae success
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6.0
8577
6.0 |
The Times
...the best moments, notably the heartbreaking flutter of Love’s On its Way, have a transcendent power. It’s good to have her back
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6.0
8362
6.0 |
Mojo
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6.0
8280
6.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
Like its physical namesake, The Sea is capable of being dull and flat, but at its most winning it provides glimpses of a new horizon shining beyond the riptides of pain and sorrow
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5.0
8413
5.0 |
NME
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