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10.0
72581
10.0 |
Q
It’s like finding a lost masterpiece, but carved from today’s margins. Print edition only
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9.0
72574
9.0 |
Exclaim
Finds Pratt branching out, expanding her sonic palette and often hinting at a symphony, even if it's made of origami and nested in a teacup
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9.0
72652
9.0 |
Paste Magazine
At its core, this follow-up to 2012’s JP is as whimsically experimental as it is steeped and reveling in its own revivalism
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9.0
72628
9.0 |
All Music
Without many spikes in volume or energy level, these murmuring songs generate an undeniably powerful radiance, breaking down doors creatively despite their understated trappings
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8.5
73070
8.5 |
The Quietus
She interrupts some gorgeous finger-picked cascades with staccato minor notes, playing with a narrative thrust that gives the record its bone density
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8.1
72646
8.1 |
Pitchfork
Pratt's austere meditations conjure confusion, wrongness, illusive realities. She sings of lonely outsiders and starry-eyed boys she wants to love but audibly cannot
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8.0
72725
8.0 |
The Guardian
She delivers words about breakups and loneliness with a strangely comforted serenity: the dreamlike radiance of a calm after a storm
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8.0
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8.0 |
The 405
A mesmerising, bewitching listen
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
A timeless record by a remarkable talent only just starting to show what she can do
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8.0
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8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
All of its components work together to give the album its faintly disorientating, dreamlike quality
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
That you can easily imagine playing “On Your Own Love Again” to death should be taken as the highest compliment
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8.0
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8.0 |
Beardfood
This album is a hook, reeling us into her gaze and call
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7.9
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7.9 |
Earbuddy
With only nine tracks, this album feels like more of a taste of what’s to come from Pratt, and if “Strange Melody” and “Back, Baby” are anything to go by, there will be a lot more excellent material to come
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7.5
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7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Proof of not only Pratt’s ability to craft an album on command and not simply piece it together over time, but also to be able to do it well
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7.5
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7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The sound of a singer and song writer completely at “home” in all the senses of that word
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7.5
72658
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Jessica Pratt has crafted a record that is as accessible as it is complex, two traits that she proves are not mutually exclusive
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7.0
72709
7.0 |
PopMatters
It’s doubtful her sounds would benefit from lavish studio additions or an accompaniment of guest musicians. With Jessica Pratt, it’s best to simply step away and let her create and perform
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7.0
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7.0 |
No Ripcord
A record about that struggle with transmuting feeling into expression. The grand themes of the album are heavily understated but, well, that’s kind of the point
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Music
Think Nick Drake, Tiny Ruins, Vashti Bunyan and even a pastoral Portishead at times
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6.0
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6.0 |
NOW
Its starkness and minor tonality give it a hushed, contemplative feel
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6.0
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6.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Pratt is a gifted songwriter with a rich, interesting voice. Despite her clear antecedents, she comes across as genuinely original and self-assured
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
It all makes for an absorbing performance and intriguing album
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6.0
72648
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Pratt's jazz-steeped singing and rich guitar harmonies can recall early Joni Mitchell, or a nimble, less overbearing twist on the psychedelic folk of 21st-century artists like Joanna Newsom
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6.0
72582
6.0 |
Mojo
Witchy and hypnotic. Print edition only
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