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The beauty of ‘Valentine’ lies in Courtney Marie Andrews’ unique ability to shift between multiple vocal textures. Her aching pain is felt in her vocals and unguarded lyricism, a looseness that gives the album its emotional weight
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An explicitly confessional record attempting to make sense of, and give vent to, a degree of personal turbulence. Print edition only
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Courtney Marie Andrews
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An ornate folk album that brims with rich orchestration and incisive lyrics. Print edition only
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Music that's moving, beautiful and uplifting. Print edition only
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Your Picture
It makes for a great story as well as great music, and if you're looking for the perfect soundtrack for quiet storm night in your home, Your Picture is worthy of your consideration
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Your Picture
If you like your teen dreams served a la Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, you'll find plenty to swoon along to here. And no nonsense. Print edition only
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Your Picture is full of love, radiating Beach Boys bliss with that killer thread of melancholy, and evoking Pastor TL Barrett's choral devotionals. Print edition only
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Dry Cleaning sound more expansive and present than ever on Secret Love, transcending their role as sprechgesang post-punk standard-bearers to become innovators whose surreal, poetic expressions of emotion reveal hearts as open as their eyes
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Selling A Vibe
There is a lyrical and performative change in the record that evidently sees The Cribs turning a corner in their career and driving off into something of a sunset, buoyed by an acceptance of their poppier tropes
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For a band that started out as snarky bohemians, even doomsday romanticists, collapsarians who nevertheless believed in the redemptive properties of art, that’s a pretty defeatist position
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