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What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood

The Mynabirds

What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood

Debut solo album from singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn after the split of Georgie James

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7.0

Label
Saddle Creek
UK Release date
03/05/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    The Mynabirds not only announce themselves as 2010’s most promising newcomers, but bestow us with a pure, big-hearted document of strength and spirit that’s as affecting and enlivening as anything pop music’s past has given us
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  2. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    he charm of the record isn't a matter of reinventing familiar sounds so much as working within them with comfort and grace. Nothing sounds overworked.
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    On ‘Good Heart’, the melody is a tender alt.country sigh in the Bright Eyes mould
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  4. 8.0 |   Blurt

    A modestly presented but subtly powerful flowering of a major talent
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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    What We Lose in the Fire… rarely falters. Rather, it revels in a soulful, brassy buzz that sounds great from the offset and even better on further listening
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  7. 6.0 |   Under The Radar

    With a smoky voice reminiscent of Dusty Springfield, Burhenn wrings all emotions out of these tracks with seeming effortlessness
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  9. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  10. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    It’s pop music, slightly gothic and self-involved, melodic and occasionally crashing, arranged with an eye on the needles twitching in the dramameter
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  11. 5.5 |   Bowlegs

    The Mynabirds debut is highly listenable, yet also plays too safely within previously defined genres, thereby losing the band’s true voice
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