★★★★★
Last time we heard from DiFranco she was enthusing about her Red Letter Year and reminding us not to "forget to have a good time". Three years on and the most politically punchy of folk-rock singer-songwriters says she's "testing deeper waters with the political songs on this album" - and that doesn't just mean the title track's update of the Florence Reece classic, complete with guest appearance from Pete Seeger...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Our Lady of Bisexual Song has come out with yet another album, proving that she can be even more prolific than the Artist Formerly Known as Interesting. Except, of course, she does not have to write SLAVE on her cheek because she is master of her domain. Before reviewing this new album, it absolutely must be noted that Ani's albums will never compare to her live shows...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Sound: Hot off the heels of the angry Dilate and the amazing live double disc set Living in Clip, Little Plastic Castle takes us into new waters. This is where Ani really starts to show her Jazz roots. The addition of a horn section on some tracks is pure genius. And yet, on other tracks, we're presented with pure DiFranco style. Her guitar is still blazing, she just has more band backing her up now. // 8 Lyrics and Singing: As always, Ani DiFranco's lyrics are amazing...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Even before her vocals come in, you can identify Which Side Are You On as an Ani DiFranco album by her signature acoustic guitar playing: a kind of gentle, funky "listen up." The album finds the influential alt/folk singer less angsty (she's happily married and raising a daughter) but more committed than ever to tackling personal and political themes like democracy, feminism, promiscuity and monogamy, the environment and abortion...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2012-02-23
★★★★★
Last time we heard from DiFranco she was enthusing about her Red Letter Year and reminding us not to "forget to have a good time". Three years on and the most politically punchy of folk-rock singer-songwriters says she's "testing deeper waters with the political songs on this album" - and that doesn't just mean the title track's update of the Florence Reece classic, complete with guest appearance from Pete Seeger...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2012-02-06
★★★★★
On Ani DiFranco's latest studio record, ¿Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe Records, 2012), songs vacillate between two major topics: politics and love. These come as very little surprise to those who have followed DiFranco through the vast changes in her songwriting approach and personal life over the past twenty years, but on Which Side she adds a new spin to the situation...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2012-02-06
★★★★★
Indie folk icon Ani DiFranco deserves serious credit for not resting on her laurels. She isn't afraid to explore different musical territory and she comes up with a winning, musically expansive album. The legendary Pete Seeger makes a guest appearance on DiFranco's stirring version of his classic anthem, "Which Side Are You On?," joined by children's chorus the Rivertown Kids and New Orleans youth brass band the Roots of Music Marching Crusaders...
- exclaim.ca
2012-02-02
★★★★★
Since emerging circa 1990, indie-folk singer Ani DiFranco has become a hero for many women (and some men) who connect intensely with her alternately vulnerable and assertive, personal and political songs. Falling somewhere between Joni Mitchell and Patti Smith (sort of), DiFranco really has a way with words, and she's got the performance skills to make them pop even more. Built around an impassioned cover of Which Side Are You On...
- hour.ca
2012-01-23
★★★★★
Until now, Ani DiFranco has never taken more than two years between albums. While that kind of delay might not be significant for most artists, the folk icon's punctuality has always gone hand in hand with the relevance of her politically charged songs, and, to that end, Which Side Are You On? scans as a little unfashionably late. Of the album's explicitly political songs, only "Promiscuity" hits on an of-the-moment issue in a way that highlights DiFranco's potent, focused sense of outrage...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-01-19
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