★★★★★
Morissette recently put out a studio album featuring all new material and several songs from Havoc and Bright Lights, including "Woman Down," "Havoc" and "Numb" are featured in this live set. But Morissette's strength lies in her early work, and to that end the bulk of this show is packed with more familiar tunes. "All I Really Want" and "You Learn" from Jagged Little Pill come early in the set as does a take on the introspective "Flinch...
- www.antimusic.com
2013-06-08
★★★★★
On Alanis Morissette's first release since ending her 13-year tenure with Maverick Records, the singer-songwriter (and sometimes actress) teamed up with co-producers Guy Sigsworth and Joe Chiccarelli on Havoc and Bright Lights with winning results. Obviously, being freed from the restrictions of a long-term recording contract has propelled Morissette into a euphoric ataraxia, which comes through loud and clear throughout the 52-minute set...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Alanis Morissette is back. Sans Glenn Ballard. And she sounds great. Morissette proved herself on her first album and has never had to be a highly marketed puppet. Interestingly, Morissette was Britney's current age when Jagged Little Pill was released. No comparison is possible between these two commercial stars...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Alanis deserves some respect for her new record. It's a treat to listen to. One of the qualities of the album is that it's an honest effort. While Jewel tries far too hard to show how earnest and vulnerable she is (and comes off cloying and annoying in the process), it's cool to listen to this album without fear of a bad book of poetry being just around the corner...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Genre: Rock Year: 2004 Country: USA Official Site: Alanis Morissette Details: Tracks & Audio Label:Maverick With her glorious new single "Everything" and her equally breathtaking album So-Called Chaos Alanis Morissette emerges finally from the shadow of a song that cast her as the poster girl for every angry young woman everywhere, which she never really was...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
"I feel smothered and encumbered and defeated and drawn." Poor lamb. Her first studio album in four years, Alanis Morissette returns to music following time spent onstage, onscreen and popping out her first child; this latter development means a fair few songs on Havoc and Bright Lights are upbeat and positive but, as that lyric above suggests, Morissette often reverts to the angsty 'self-help' wordiness that defined much of her work from Jagged Little Pill onwards...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2012-09-04
★★★★★
As much as you may want to deny it, Alanis Morissette, with all of her gusto and theatre-driven fellatio, ushered in a mainstream wave of vocal and unapologetic female singer-songwriters...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-09-04
★★★★★
Alanis Morissette is one of those artists whose works can't be judged on anything but a case-by-case basis, due to the fact that she puts the entirety of her emotions, personal triumphs and failures into each one. In the trail of studio albums leading up to Havoc and Bright Lights, her eighth, she's gone from a reformed Canadian pop princess to an angry young alt-rocker (covering up her past recording career like an O.G...
- thephoenix.com
2012-08-30
★★★★★
Alanis Morissette's trademark songwriting idiosyncrasies are very deliberately scaled back on Havoc and Bright Lights, the singer-songwriter's first album in four years. There are still a few instances of garbled syntax (the couplet, "This woman's neuroses a desperate plea/For slack to be cut to me," on "Spiral," is indefensible), but, in a marked change, she relies more often on simple, declarative statements that actually fit the meter of her songs...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-08-30
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