★★★★★
A decade removed from 2003's five-million-selling debut that put her on the music map, Stone returns to that well with a similarly styled batch of generally obscure 60s soul tunes brought up to date with contemporary production, if not arrangements. Like her revelatory reading of the White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Girl" from the first set, Stone brings her throaty R&B to the Broken Bells' "The High Road" in one of this album's finest performances...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Nearly a decade removed from her breakthrough as a precocious, big-voiced 16-year-old, it's debatable whether or not Joss Stone has ever lived up to the enormous potential she showed on her debut, The Soul Sessions. The novelty of her youth naturally wore off, and middling albums like Introducing...Joss Stone and LP1 found Stone overshadowed by fellow retro-minded soul singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. The Soul Sessions Vol...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-08-06
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Joss StoneSoul Sessions Vol.2S-Curve Records Stone's sixth album is a counterpart to her first - 2003's multi-platinum debut of 60s and 70s covers on which the then 16-year-old sagely aligned herself with old-timer luminaries such as Betty Wright and Benny Latimore. This time, round Muscle Shoals cred comes from Clayton Ivey and it's the 70s and 80s that have been mined...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-07-26
★★★★★
Joss Stone's 2003 debut, The Soul Sessions, made her an international star and multimillionaire at the age of 16. Almost a decade on, having spent almost all of her fortune buying herself out of her record contract, and having being victim of an attempted kidnap, she is older and presumably wiser. She's certainly returned to her debut's soul covers format in more mature and superb voice...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-07-23
★★★★★
Joss Stone was only 16 years old when she debuted with The Soul Sessions in 2003. Britain and the United States quickly fell for her barefoot innocence and worldly, earthy soul voice, a voice well beyond her years. Since then, Stone's resolutely followed her own path. Mostly self-penned albums have yielded diminishing artistic and commercial returns, while her recordings with SuperHeavy failed to attract many plaudits. Film, television and videogame roles have met with comparable indifference...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-07-23
★★★★★
Describing Joss Stone's musical manifesto can be a toughie. Below the surface of her soulful bluesy chops and her over-cooked affectations, the English singer boasts the grit of Janis Joplin and the timbre of Dusty Springfield. When you frolic through her bundle of records, you discover a mix bag of Aretha soul ("Tell Me 'Bout It," "Spoiled," "Super Duper Love") and lots of funk ("You Had Me," "Fell In Love with a Boy")...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-08-22
★★★★★
Amy Winehouse's death has left a hole in neo-soul and Joss Stone's latest only illustrates what an irreplaceable talent Winehouse was. LP1 is the bluesy 24-year-old singer's flattest and phoniest album yet, far removed from the bottled lightning that makes artists like Winehouse one of a kind. The red flags come flying early and often, starting with that title, which is basically musician's code for "back-to-basics album...
- www.avclub.com
2011-08-08
★★★★★
Almost a decade into her career, and after having recorded four albums previously, Joss Stone is back with the curiously named LP1. Turns out that the title is meant to underline the fact that this is her first release since leaving EMI and starting her own label, Stone'd Records...
- hour.ca
2011-08-08
★★★★★
Joss Stone has been around for quite a long time now, but it feels like we're always being reintroduced to her. If you get a twinge of "Hello, I'm me again" deja vu from her latest comeback's opening cut, the yearning-to-be-triumphant "Newborn," it's because circumstance keeps plopping her in the driver's seat of a fate that seems destined to be unavoidable...
- www.soundspike.com
2011-08-08