★★★★★
It's difficult to review - or listen to - a Jenn Grant album without focusing almost entirely on her voice. It's a beautiful, colourful instrument: experimentally melismatic and incredibly expressive. Now and then its tone is sweet and coy, like the ubiquitous "quirky" female voices you hear in car commercials, though on this album more than her previous three, she can also sound aggressive. In The Belly Of A Dragon, for example, thrusts with an almost angry and wholly satisfying gospel-soul...
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2013-04-02
★★★★★
Jenn Grant is on an upswing. The Halifax-based pop singer/songwriter sounds positively peppy on her third album, which is full of charming melodies, playful arrangements and electro-tinged dance beats that leave her folk roots in the dust. Grant seems to be writing with an audience in mind, a departure from the introspective broken-heartedness displayed on 2009's Echoes...
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2011-01-17
★★★★★
Halifax-based singer/songwriter Jenn Grant sounds a bit like she (or the label) is hoping she'll become the next Feist, which is the main thing preventing this album from being as good as it could have been. The production is creative but unobtrusive. Unexpected textures pop up often enough to hold your interest without being novelties, and Grant's voice is strong, pliable and easy on the ears...
- nowtoronto.com
2009-11-07