★★★★★
After her terrific 2007 album of covers, Uncover Me, Arden is back with an 11-track album of original, mostly down-tempo songs that - after repeated listenings - I think is the best album of her career. Her voice lilts just so, her lyrics are smart and no one in Canada sings a ballad as good as Arden. iPod-worthy tracks: Daughter Down and You Are Everything.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
The newly slim Jann Arden (she's dropped 60 pounds) is a smart cookie. This perfectly timed 10-track collection of covers brings new life, and electric guitars, to three great songs: the antiwar classic (and first single) Bring the Boys Home, a radically reworked and haunting Love Is a Battlefield, and Cat Stevens' Peace Train (check out Arden's incredible backup vocals), which, if there is any justice, deserves to hit number one everywhere...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Jann Arden's new offering has a number of factors working in its favor: a good sound, catchy songs, and a great title. Blood Red Cherry finds this Canadian songwriter once again exploring the ups and downs of love and the power of going to town with your best dress on. The album kicks off with a couple of strong cuts, "Waiting in Canada" and "Cherry Popsicle," before drifting into more typical relationship songs like "Sleepless" and "Never Give Up on Me...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Living Under June solidified Jann Arden's status as a hitmaker in Canada, and it also broke the American market open for her, thanks to the single "Insensitive." While her follow-up, Happy?, doesn't have anything quite as instantly catchy as that song, it does have a number of well-crafted, melodic, introspective songs confirming that Living Under June was not a fluke.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Singer-songwriter Jann Arden's star has dimmed in the United States since her Lilith Fair era heyday; like her cohorts Lisa Loeb and Jewel, she's even taken to reality television hosting gigs to help pay the bills, and 2007's Uncover Me was only released in her native Canada. That's a shame, because as all-covers records go, this is a fine example of the form...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
This western Canadian singer/songwriter is brutally introspective, yet outgoing. After all, she's hosted the Juno Awards (Canada's version of the Grammys). She writes and sings beguilingly on this strong debut about temptation, salvation, jealousy, and loneliness. Former John Mellencamp drummer Kenny Aronoff helps to ground the album's seamless sound, and Jackson Browne drops in for "Unloved."
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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