★★★★★
Montreal franco-pop chanteuse gets her cover-girl on with these 12 (mostly) acoustic guitar and piano, English-language interpretations of songs from the first two seasons of hit Rad-Can TV series Trauma, and she owns these songs so hard you have to wonder if anyone will ever be able to pry them away from her...
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2010-12-13
★★★★★
I know it's unbelievably self-centred to love music because it's the kind of stuff I'd make myself if I had anything resembling musical talent, but what can I say? Twenty-three-year-old Montrealer Ariane Moffatt has securely lodged herself in my psyche in the last few days, becoming my musical alter ego, the soundmaker whose notes turn the dial to my mood shifter. Stylistically, she's an oddity in this province and a breath of fresh air...
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2010-11-09
★★★★★
Moffatt has dialled it down with this third, much-awaited album in a move that bespeaks a desire to strip the runaway success that is her musical career down to its foundation before building it up again. The electro element intrinsic to her signature sound is pretty much nowhere to be found, for mixed results - this is quaint album, but nothing extraordinary...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02