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10.0
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10.0 |
The Irish Times
There is nothing morbid about Williams’s artful journey through the maze of personal travails
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9.3
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9.3 |
Paste Magazine
Adult work, Ghosts hits the gut, the soul and the grey matter
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9.0
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PopMatters
On her superb new album, Lucinda Williams takes the wheel for a memory trip down Highway 20
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9.0
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Slant Magazine
Williams's location-specific concept album serves as a reminder that her best songs need not inhabit one specific place, geographically or emotionally
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8.0
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Pitchfork
Williams plays stylistic hopscotch here, jumping between brooding rock and bouncing gospel, swaying balladry and drifting folk
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8.0
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The Music
The key to prolific output is making sure the quality never drops off and being able to maintain the listener's attention. Williams does that brilliantly
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8.0
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The FT
The songs continue the high quality of Williams’ work in recent years, encompassing country-blues, tributes to Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen and moody roots-rock
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8.0
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The Guardian
Intimate, pained and powerful
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8.0
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The Arts Desk
A delight for those who like to mix pleasure with pain
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8.0
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Uncut
Bruising, emotional, majestic
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
Williams grapples with mortality on a stark, emotionally raw alt-country masterpiece
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8.0
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Spin
She’s never sounded more alive
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8.0
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All Music
She's moving into one of the most fruitful periods of her recording career as she approaches her fourth decade as a musician
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8.0
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Spectrum Culture
It’s refreshing to hear Williams taking those risks, but what’s even better is hearing her succeed at what she sets out to do
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8.0
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NOW
The title track nails it best, conjuring spectres and a hallucinatory, southern Gothic soundscape, bone-chilling at its peak
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
She knows that nothing lasts forever, but also that everything lingers on. Print edition only
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7.5
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7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Folk rock legend captures a concrete portrayal of the most unsure moment of life: the end
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
Her lazy, beaten drawl is an acquired taste...but Williams’ tear-stained tales are so vivid and evocative it’s hard not be haunted
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6.0
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Mojo
12 snapshots of the ghosts who inhabit the highway and it's exit ramps. Print edition only
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