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8.0
11523
8.0 |
State
Accepted for what it is, it is one of the most honest rock albums in years. It’s not going to knock Celebrity Skin off the top of the list but it nestles in close all the same
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8.0
11755
8.0 |
The Irish Times
At times sounding like a ragged Stevie Nicks, there’s a real horse kick to this album, and Love sure knows her way around a penetrating lyric
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8.0
11816
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Nobody's Daughter is most certainly a Courtney Love album
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7.0
11524
7.0 |
Spin
With Courtney Love the only original member involved, Hole's return is nominal, but Love's resurrection is very real
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7.0
11522
7.0 |
The Digital Fix
Little has changed, musically or lyrically in the twelve years since the last Hole album ... leaving this comeback as a minor vindication. If you liked Celebrity Skin, you'll like this, possibly even love it
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7.0
12159
7.0 |
The Quietus
Nobody's Daughter is not the triumphant return Love so desired, but there's just enough Love performative here to enliven its weaker moments
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6.0
12022
6.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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6.0
12041
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
There are positive signs of rebirth to be found here, chief amongst them the fact that Love appears equally well-placed to tackle both rock anthems and more acoustic, stripped-down songwriting as she clatters towards middle age
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6.0
11752
6.0 |
musicOMH
Like most Hole albums, Nobody's Daughter has flashes of inspiration but is generally weighed down by inconsistency and too many songs that sound like they were phoned in
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6.0
11833
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Nobody's Daughter isn't a true success — but it's a noble effort
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6.0
11849
6.0 |
The Sunday Times
Sounds a lot more like Hole’s excellent early work than her half-baked solo venture, America’s Sweetheart
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6.0
11790
6.0 |
The Guardian
She's alternately thrilling (see the snarling, visceral Skinny Little Bitch) and tedious (quite a lot of the other tracks)
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6.0
11808
6.0 |
The Times
Linda Perry’s contributions blaze with an almost psychic empathy for the chaos that Love seems compelled to generate
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5.0
11845
5.0 |
The Observer
The last three tracks could have formed the basis of a truly riveting comeback. But it is difficult to see whether anyone still emotionally invested in Courtney Love's raddled muse will be able to take succour from them at the end of such a misfiring album
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5.0
11655
5.0 |
PopMatters
Love still undoubtedly has many songs left in her that are waiting to be recorded; she just needs to learn that it’s time to move on from the past
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5.0
11711
5.0 |
Blurt
The majority of the songs here are blithely overproduced with most of its melodies un-memorable
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5.0
12272
5.0 |
FasterLouder
While the album concentrates on themes of loss, regret, rehab and rebirth, it never manages to do so with the emotion of Honey
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4.0
11723
4.0 |
Eye Weekly
A glut of overwrought, interchangeable power ballads
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4.0
11566
4.0 |
Uncut
The more she gets her act together, the less acute her songwriting becomes. Print edition only
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4.0
11577
4.0 |
Q
For all her raging intelligence, Love is only as good as her collaborators. Print edition only
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4.0
11990
4.0 |
The Skinny
A slickly produced and somewhat vapid collection of adequate, committee-written pop rock
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4.0
11759
4.0 |
The Independent
It sounds pretty much as you'd expect, with the standard 1990s grunge-punk settings rendered in thick, furry textures by the producer Michael Beinhorn
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2.9
11608
2.9 |
Pitchfork
ove's voice is garbled and withering, and there are times ... where her voice sounds uncomfortably like Bob Dylan's. But the guitars are so dated, raunchy, and overstated that every track starts to feel like cartoon-rock
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