★★★★★
Like many of the great soul records it seeks to emulate, Indian Ocean's lead track "September Fields" is its strongest moment by a mile. Casting a long shadow over everything else that comes after, it serves as Ford's "Let's Stay Together": a massive song with a strong hook, strutting soul backing from, appropriately enough, the Rev...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-12-09
★★★★★
Frazey Ford: 'a beguiling contradition'. Whatever you thought (or didn't) about Frazey Ford's previous outfit, folk trio the Be Good Tanyas, it's worth approaching her second solo album as a stand-alone work. Ford recorded it in Memphis with Al Green's old band, the Hi Rhythm Section. The result is a minor country-soul gem, full of lovely and deeply atmospheric instrumentation gilding Ford's alluring vocals...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-10-26
★★★★★
The second solo long-player from the Canadian folk-pop songstress and former Be Good Tanya, Indian Ocean finds Frazey Ford enlisting the help of the legendary Hi Rhythm Section, who were Al Green's not-so-secret weapons and the prime architects of the Memphis soul sound during the Stax era, and kicking out a warm, breezy, and not surprisingly soulful set of R&B-kissed country-pop confections that sound as timeless as they do of a particular era...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Frazey Ford
Indian Ocean
By Sarah Towle
Published Oct 10, 2014
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It's been four long years since singer-songwriter Frazey Ford graced the world with a full-length album. Indian Ocean is the followup to her critically acclaimed debut (2010's Obadiah ), and it follows in the same gospel-soul vein, but this time around Ford's tunes had a boost from some of the masters of soul in the heart of Memphis, Tennessee: Al Green's band, the Hi Rhythm Section...
- exclaim.ca
2014-12-15
★★★★★
Frazey Ford Indian OceanBy Sarah TowleIt's been four long years since singer-songwriter Frazey Ford graced the world with a full-length album. Indian Ocean is the followup to her critically acclaimed debut (2010's Obadiah), and it follows in the same gospel-soul vein, but this time around Ford's tunes had a boost from some of the masters of soul in the heart of Memphis, Tennessee: Al Green's band, the Hi Rhythm Section...
- exclaim.ca
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Frazey Ford's first solo album away from Canadian vocal group Be Good Tanyas continues down her band's rootsy path while taking a side trip to Soulville. We're not talking blasting Stax horns and dancing-in-the-streets arrangements; instead, think of a Gillian Welch disc that's more infatuated with Memphis than mountain music. Ford's distinctive quavering smoky vocals remain the centerpiece, although here she favors a candlelit saloon croon instead of the Be Good's campfire folkiness...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Obadiah refers to the shortest book in the Bible consisting of 21 verses, named after a minor Hebrew prophet whose prophesies foretell the destruction of Edom, a town which took part in chasing the Israelites from Israel. There are some serious political implications to choosing a title with such weight, but, this being pop music, a name doesn't always necessarily reflect the immediate social and political beliefs of the singer...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-08-24
★★★★★
For 10 years now, Frazey Ford has been harmonizing sweetly and trading verses with the two other members of the Be Good Tanyas, whose easygoing vocals and rustic folk-pop have made them mainstays on Vancouver's music scene. In going solo, she's carving out her own niche while proving that she can anchor a full album on her own...
- pitchfork.com
2010-08-06
★★★★★
As the former lead singer of the Canadian folk-pop trio the Be Good Tanyas, Frazey Ford turned out some quietly affecting performances. But they're demure delights compared to the heady pleasures of her debut solo album. Like Jolie Holland, who also previously played in the Tanyas, Ford proves she's a hypnotic singer-songwriter in her own right...
- www.boston.com
2010-07-30
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