★★★★★
"Anchored home in her interstellar sea / But poor lonely Cassiopeia." The featured line is excerpted from Sara Bareilles' "Cassiopeia", one of several "heady" tracks from her latest effort, The Blessed Unrest. As alluded to by the aforementioned lyric, Bareilles has a prodigious gift for words; she's incredibly poetic and refined with her pen. The rub with being such an ambitious singer/songwriter is that sometimes your gift can present itself to others as indulgent...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-05
★★★★★
"Anchored home in her interstellar sea / But poor lonely Cassiopeia." The featured line is excerpted from Sara Bareilles' "Cassiopeia", one of several "heady" tracks from her latest effort, The Blessed Unrest. As alluded to by the aforementioned lyric, Bareilles has a prodigious gift for words; she's incredibly poetic and refined with her pen. The rub with being such an ambitious singer/songwriter is that sometimes your gift can present itself to others as indulgent...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-08
★★★★★
Perhaps most well known for the ever catchy tune "Love Song", Sara Bareilles is still going strong, releasing her fourth studio album The Blessed Unrest. Bareilles has created an album that almost tells a story of her life. "Chasing The Sun" documents her move to New York to start a new life - both professionally and personally it would seem. "Manhattan" tells a tale of heart-break, opening with an almost bluesy piano sound. "You can have Manhattan. Cause I can't have you.....
- www.theaureview.com
2013-07-30
★★★★★
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No one has rated this album. You can be the first. Sara Bareilles - The Blessed UnrestSara Bareilles - The Blessed UnrestRelease Date: July 16, 2013
Record Label: Epic Records
Of the artists who have broken through to the mainstream in the past ten years or so, Sara Bareilles has one of the best stories...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-07-18
★★★★★
The Blessed Unrest is the flip side of Kaleidoscope Heart, the 2010 album that presaged Sara Bareilles' move into the mainstream, giving the singer/songwriter her first number one album and opening the door for a gig on network television hosting the competition The Sing-Off. Kaleidoscope Heart was bright and almost baroque, its arrangements lush and large, the kind of record that seems hazily triumphant -- which it was, to the extent that it was following her breakthrough hit "Love Song," the...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-07-25
★★★★★
Four albums in, the singer-pianist behind the hit "Love Song" has not shed her major songwriting affliction: She's just too diplomatic. The Blessed Unrest is full of broad, exposition-heavy vignettes of heartache and resiliency; the songs feel groomed for rom-com soundtracks, from the benign post-split nightlife ode "Little Black Dress" to "Manhattan," a devastated ballad where Bareilles promises her ex she'll flee the island because she's no longer "one half of two...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-07-16
★★★★★
When Sara Bareilles' 2010 album "Kaleidoscope Heart" debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, the achievement proved that the "Love Song" singer-songwriter was not a pop personality to underestimate. The California native could have very well drifted off into obscurity wearing a one-hit-wonder tiara following the slow-growing success of that single, but "Kaleidoscope Heart" and its lead single "King of Anything" demonstrated that Bareilles had discovered a charming pop formula and a host of ideas...
- www.billboard.com
2013-07-17
★★★★★
Of the artists who have broken through to the mainstream in the past ten years or so, Sara Bareilles has one of the best stories. Signed to Epic Records after songs from her independent debut album began gaining traction on television shows and around the web, Bareilles was suddenly under a whole new kind of pressure...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-07-16
★★★★★
The churning beige waters of the folk-based female singer-songwriter are deep and lucrative indeed, but tough to distinguish oneself amidst. A kooky edge and vocal inventiveness has helped Regina Spektor gain distinctive colour, Shania Twain made billions by delving sporadically into country pop and Tori Amos has done surprisingly well out of playing the pig-suckling nutjob...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2011-02-19
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