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Pushin' Against a Stone

Valerie June

Pushin' Against a Stone

Debut studio album from the Memphis soul / blues singer-songwriter

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Sunday Best
UK Release date
06/05/2013
US Release date
13/08/2013
  1. 10.0 |   The Independent

    It's music that slips between the generic niches favoured by broadcasters; but isn't that exactly where the most interesting music comes from?
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    The young Tennessean has been around the block more than once. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    June has ambition to be more than a dreadlocked Gillian Welch
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Valerie call this "organic moonshine roots music" - it's the perfect phrase to sum up her glorious sound. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    A sensational debut effort
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  6. 8.0 |   Spin

    One of those reconstituted roots albums — like Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand or even Moby's Play or Alabama Shakes’ debut – that sounds reassuringly familiar yet original at the same time
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  7. 7.6 |   Paste Magazine

    It doesn’t quite matter just how June gets where she is going, as long as she gets there: the musical ends justify the blend of genres that makes up her means
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  8. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    A remarkably braided album of roots music, connecting country, string band, gospel, blues and R&B traditions so fluently
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  9. 7.0 |   All Music

    Despite her slippery blend of styles, June's songs on Pushin' Against a Stone reveal there is one historical place she doesn't deviate from: the storyteller's, a Southern hallmark
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  10. 6.0 |   Q

    If there's a fault, the self-consciously retro production doesn't push her far enough. Print edition only


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