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16 September 2025

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Are You My Mother?

Kathryn Calder

Are You My Mother?

First solo album from the member of Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers gets a delayed UK release

ADM rating[?]: 7.3
Label: File Under Music
UK Release date: 29/08/2011
US Release date: 10/08/2010

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8.3 31253
8.3 | A.V. Club

Calder has gleaned the ability to write hooky, jogging New Pornos-like anthems without the race-to-the-finish windedness of her other band
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8.0 31254
8.0 | Paste Magazine

Calder’s confident voice and commanding presence anchors it all; she’s the one mourning, but she’ll likely wind up comforting you
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8.0 31395
8.0 | Q

She has confronted death but she has celebrated life too. Print edition only
8.0 31242
8.0 | Drowned In Sound

It’s an album about death that reminds us what a joyous thing it is to be alive and to love and have loved
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8.0 31243
8.0 | musicOMH

There is nothing breathtakingly original here, but Calder is so adept at refining the twin crafts of songwriting and arranging that it hardly matters
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8.0 31244
8.0 | The Digital Fix

This is a beautiful and emotionally laid bare collection of songs that only the most cold of heart wouldn’t be moved by
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8.0 31246
8.0 | The 405

Calder grounds her music in a melancholic majesty, a tonal focus on life, love, death and the redemptive power of grief
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8.0 31922
8.0 | The Line Of Best Fit

A gloriously refined record, which is sure to be a hidden gem, so don’t let it pass you by
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6.0 31647
6.0 | NME

An ingénue growing into a sound of her own
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6.0 31255
6.0 | PopMatters

If the album isn’t a total success, it’s at least a very good effort and hopefully an indication of good things to come
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5.9 31252
5.9 | Pitchfork

Despite lots of lovely touches - namely the haunting singing saw on "Arrow" and the goosebump-inducing harmonies on the painfully intimate "So Easily" - the album feels slight
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1. Slip Away N/A
2. Low N/A
3. Castor And Pollux N/A
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