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Time Travel

Alessi's Ark

Time Travel

Second album of orchestral pop/modern folk in the from 20-year old Londoner Alessi Laurent-Marke.

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Bella Union
UK Release date
25/04/2011
US Release date
03/05/2011
  1. 9.0 |   Clash

    An album which rarely dips below excellent and the old school songwriting and airy, summery production will leave you utterly spellbound
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  2. 8.0 |   BBC

    Singing like a cross between Hope Sandoval and Björk, Laurent-Marke has made a record of deceptive simplicity
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    The understated arrangements suggest you're listening to a woman with impeccable taste. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    It takes several plays to appreciate all the small touches that make up each delicate piece
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  5. 8.0 |   The Observer

    While her voice is sweetly girlish and breathy, her songs – weightless, but deftly made folk songs – are very grownup
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    A precious mix of childlike insouciance and adolescent anxiety
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    While Time Travel is mostly a sedate, bucolic affair, there are welcome moments of musical and lyrical aggression
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  8. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Laurent-Marke’s candied and wobbly tones wash over you with such ease and elegance
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  9. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Has some stellar moments but is not quite the album to make a star of Alessi’s Ark
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  10. 6.0 |   The Fly

    A rather lovely album - full of folky coming-of-age tales
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  11. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A solid album of pleasant, though slightly conventional, country pop songs
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  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Woozy waltz rhythms and languid guitars abound. Print edition only

  13. 6.0 |   Q

    Her mostly drum-free songs are as winsome and engaging as those of Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons. Print edition only

  14. 4.0 |   Bowlegs

    The London singer revels in the safe, mid-paced arrangements thickly, and far too generously, spread across the record
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