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The Magician's Private Library

Holly Miranda

The Magician's Private Library

Debut album produced by TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek from the former singer with alt.rock act The Jealous Girlfriends

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6.8

Label
XL
UK Release date
22/02/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    This dreamy, warm and otherworldly concoction is the perfect antidote to the grey and chilly beginnings of the impending new year
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    Cat-Power-esque and sprinkled with Au Revoir Simone Casiotone beats
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  3. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Songs like the otherworldly Joints or the PJ Harvey sound-a-like No One Just Us suggest that she has the talent to carve out a long, successful career
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    There’s much enchantment at play on The Magician’s Private Library as Miranda jumps neatly from one beautifully embellished, fully imagined tune to the next.
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  7. 8.0 |   NME

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  8. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    While Brooklynite Holly Miranda is barely past her skuzzy bar phase, she proves she has the potential to be a certified Big Deal on The Magician's Private Library
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  9. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Has all the requisite charm to make an appearance in your CD collection before the year’s end, but it’s sometimes too somnambulant for its own good
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  10. 7.0 |   The Fly

    ‘The Magicians Private Library’ deserves a place in your record collection, just don’t ask where to file it
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  11. 6.7 |   Pitchfork

    ...there's an inherent modesty involved in Miranda's personality as a performer. All that makes her a welcoming, supremely likable figure, but it also puts her in danger of blending in with her surroundings
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  12. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Next time, Miranda should find a less brilliant producer — one who'll serve her songs, not swamp them
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  13. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Miranda's solo debut takes her headlong down Sitek's rabbit-hole into an underworld thick with wooze and brass
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  14. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    it's impossible to say how much Miranda is responsible for the shimmering, luxuriant music on this album, and how much was conjured up by her magician of a producer, TVOR mastermind Dave Sitek
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  15. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Like Annie Clark on the stunning Actor, The Magician’s Private Library finds Holly Miranda equally as fascinated by the jarring juxtaposition between the gorgeous and the disgusting
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  16. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Holly Miranda makes nice music, sometimes really pretty, but it doesn’t say anything real or move emotions to anywhere even nearing an extreme
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  17. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  18. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    An anemic batch of songs that drifts by in a blur - albeit a rich, multi-hued blur
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  19. 4.0 |   Eye Weekly

    Holly Miranda’s lyrics are inspired by her lucid dreaming, and though they’re sparse, they’re still convoluted
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