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Make My Head Sing

Jessica Lea Mayfield

Make My Head Sing

Third album from the Kent, Ohio alt country singer-songwriter is an alt.rock affair co-produced with husband and bassist Jesse Newport

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
ATO
UK Release date
02/06/2014
US Release date
15/04/2014
  1. 8.0 |   Art Rocker

    A purr of thoughtful vocals and enthralling melodies – an original and blinding mixture of grunge and country stamped with the seal of Jessica Lea Mayfield
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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    The sense of intrigue throughout means that you really don’t know what’s coming next – which is half the allure. In any case, it makes for a deeply satisfying record
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  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Moves between grinding sludge-rock and fuzzy slow-core. Print edition only

  4. 7.0 |   NME

    Those heavier cuts are the album’s best – dark, dreamy and abrasive
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  5. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    On her third LP (and first without the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach producing), she's grown into a world-weary alt-rock dreamer
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  6. 7.0 |   All Music

    The gentleness in her vocal floats atop the reverbed six-string riff and shimmering melody, creating a layered frame for her heartworn lyric
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  7. 6.9 |   Pitchfork

    She emphasizes the guitar parts to the neglect of every other element. And yet, Mayfield remains an incisive lyricist with a sharp humor that gets underplayed by her deadpan delivery
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  8. 6.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Mayfield only plays occasionally to her strengths on this release yet her desire to step on the distortion and pay tribute to rock bands of yore isn’t necessarily anything to be sniffed at
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