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8.5
84509
8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Loretta Lynn continues to do what she does best
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8.0
84539
8.0 |
PopMatters
There’s no grandstanding on this modest yet confident record. Rather there’s the humility, humour, wisdom and hard-won truths of country music at its best
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8.0
84543
8.0 |
Spin
Full Circle is like an afternoon on the front porch listening to Lynn tell you her life story, a trajectory with an impact that no single disc could ever fully sum up
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8.0
84358
8.0 |
Pitchfork
If Van Lear Rose found Loretta making a bid at updating her sound, Full Circle finds her assembling a time capsule. The album is a snapshot, intimate and largely acoustic, and made to sound out of time
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8.0
84359
8.0 |
Uncut
Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello appear as duet partners, affably resigned to not competing with that unmistakable undimmed voice. Print edition only
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8.0
84360
8.0 |
Mojo
Lynn still sounds full of the life-force; more engaged and effervescent than many stars half her age. Print edition only
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8.0
84361
8.0 |
All Music
One of the record's attributes is its clean, simple sound. Spare but never skeletal, the record feels intimate but never haunted
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8.0
84373
8.0 |
The Music
She still has that strong and righteous tone capable of soaring notes as well as conveying more intimate heartache
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8.0
84355
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
For a song dashed off in a couple of hours, 'Whispering Sea' holds up well against the years
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8.0
84356
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
A reprise of her own "Fist City" loses nothing with the years, her mandate to "close your face" still landing like one of modern music's greatest lyrical bitch-slaps
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8.0
84440
8.0 |
Evening Standard
With her voice seemingly unwithered by age, it’s a delight
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8.0
84443
8.0 |
The Observer
It feels like a simultaneous (re)introduction to Lynn’s career, and a summing up, and makes for a worthy companion piece to Cash’s American Recordings
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7.5
84357
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
At 83 years old, the queen of country music gifts listeners another album of heartfelt zingers
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7.0
85799
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Her confidence and sense of fun is palpable throughout the 14 track set of timeless Americana
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6.0
84816
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Although some of the 14 tracks hint at deeper reflection, they lack the same insight or emotional vulnerability that her friend Johnny Cash revealed in his final albums
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6.0
84387
6.0 |
The Guardian
Still a force to be reckoned with
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6.0
84394
6.0 |
The FT
Wisely, producers Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash don’t over-orchestrate the music, but instead allow her forceful vocals, just shy of a holler, to hold centre stage
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