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9.0
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9.0 |
The Music
The Voyager is as striking an album as she’s made
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9.0
67806
9.0 |
Uncut
She has shed none of her way with an irresistible, deadpan pop melody. Print edition only
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9.0
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All Music
It's such a sultry, soothing sound that it's easy to ignore the pain that lies beneath but that's a feature, not a bug
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9.0
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9.0 |
Spin
Lewis remains one of our foremost chroniclers of heartache and its discontents
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8.5
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8.5 |
The 405
While lyrically it's unflinchingly honest, the music shines with positivity and glorious pop songwriting
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
There isn’t a weak track on the album - just varying degrees of excellence
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8.0
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Evening Standard
Jenny Lewis’s boho Californian confessional sounds like the record she was destined to make
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8.0
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The Observer
There's cheating, mushrooms and coke on Slippery Slopes, and, most honest of all, childlessness on the excellent single Just one of the Guys
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8.0
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Under The Radar
Another LP of stellar Americana-flavored indie rock from one of our generation's most reliable singer/songwriters
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8.0
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Q
Confesses all on a career-high FM-rock adventure. Print edition only
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
It’s fun, compulsive listening, and really highlights Jenny Lewis’s songwriting credentials with a clutch of great, unpretentious pop songs
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8.0
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The Arts Desk
Lyrically Lewis is like the best girl groups of the 1960s: all sunny harmonies masking painful subject matter the listener is likely to miss until she is singing along
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8.0
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State
Things really hum when Lewis awakens the ghosts of Buckingham, Nicks and Sound City. The ’70s grooves are perfectly suited to these laments and confessions of moral missteps and tangled relationships
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7.8
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Sputnik Music (staff)
There’s a luxury to this album that’s hard to reconcile with the repeated bruisings that Lewis‘s gorgeous voice relates, but it’s true that the best kinds of beauty hurt
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7.6
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7.6 |
Paste Magazine
Most of these songs are anchored on a foundation of smart, solid pop
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7.5
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Consequence Of Sound
The sound is big, and it draws more from the go-big-or-go-home aesthetic of bands like Fleetwood Mac and Cream
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7.5
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7.5 |
Earbuddy
One of the year’s better rock albums
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7.5
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7.5 |
A.V. Club
Ten years after Rilo Kiley put out its breakthrough album, More Adventurous, she’s gone from penning death-obsessed songs to being touched by actual loss, and that’s heard in The Voyager
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7.2
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7.2 |
Pitchfork
Lewis is her usual smart, funny self—a singer whose default setting is wry skepticism and a songwriter with a gift for the telling detail and the blunt confession
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7.0
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Beardfood
Lyrically and vocally, Lewis manages to sound sincere and raw
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Quietus
Lewis' voice is an accomplished, commanding one, and when she's on song you're left hanging on her every word; occasionally here you might find yourself skipping to the highlights
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Lewis' slippery, expressive voice and sunny SoCal tunes make The Voyager a rewarding journey
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7.0
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Exclaim
A welcome return for Lewis
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7.0
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Mojo
It’s clear that she has jumped into the more commercial end of her beloved 70’s spectrum. Print edition only
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6.0
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Slant Magazine
These songs offer a balanced mixture of exhaustion and wisdom, but on the whole The Voyager feels in need of more cohesion, some sort of uniting sound to give it structure
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6.0
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The Guardian
Ror all its merits – her voice is utterly pure, and the altpop textures luscious – The Voyager lacks unity
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6.0
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The Irish Times
The Voyager has some elements of what made Lewis’s old band, Rilo Kiley, interesting
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6.0
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6.0 |
musicOMH
The Voyager is less of an addition to her back catalogue than a summary of her work to date, dipping into different eras of Lewis, and not settling on any
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6.0
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No Ripcord
It’s an incredibly well-observed, poignant look at what it means to be Jenny Lewis right now, yet lacks the indefinable quality to make it a classic
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5.0
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NME
Ultimately, the pop sheen Adams applies on 'The Voyager' is at odds with Lewis' songs. By always opting for directness, he's failed to let her do justice, musically, to the darkness of her inspiration
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