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Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
| Allmusic | | Kathleen Edwards' 2005 album Back to Me was the sort of record that grows and reveals new secrets each time you gave it a listen, so it's tempting not to trust immediate impressions after three spins of her next set, 2008's Asking for Flowers. But if one has to leap to a relative snap judgment, Edwards' new record sounds just as strong as its fine predecessor, and shows that she is gaining strength and confidence as a songwriter, qualities she hardly lacked before....full text |
| | Amazon | | After a three-year hiatus to catch up on life in her native Ontario, Kathleen Edwards has done nothing to separate herself from the small pool of North America’s fast-rising songwriters, in which she is a deeply immersed member. Her third album continues her clear-minded, open-hearted lyricism, though with a ripeness that comes from years on the road and years more to reflect. Edwards remains in a tug-of-war with matters of the heart, and she’s not afraid slyly to nudge the opposite side....full text |
| | Billboard | | "Asking for Flowers" is a fourth-album masterpiece from this Canadian singer/ songwriter, filled with literate and provocative lyricism, vivid characters and cinematically engaging scenarios. Kathleen Edwards chronicles romantic turmoil in "Buffalo," "The Cheapest Key" and the title track, then turns around for such sweeter romantic paeans as "Sure As Shit" and "Scared at Night." There's the rocking, country-flavored energy of "The Cheapest Key" and "I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory." Elsewhere, she mines topical matters on the draft resister's ode "Oil Man's War," the media and environmental concerns of "Oh Canada" and "Alicia Ross," whose content was drafted from a real-life murder....full text |
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