Is A Woman

Rolling Stone (3/14/02, p.72) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...Homey and livable - life without coffee. Not your average pop pleasure; not your average pop band." Spin (3/02, pp.134-136) - 6 out of 10 - "...playing fast and loose with country, indie, and soul....replacing song-craft with baroque digressions..." Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Kurt's songs were poised between whimsical reflection and grim tragedy." Uncut (1/03, p.94) - Ranked #6 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year" - "...Another American classic..." Alternative Press (5/02, p.88) - 8 out of 10 - "...Clever, literate and pretty..." The Wire (2/02, p.63) - "...A more personal set of songs that have been minimally constructed and designed for a smaller group of musicians....a record that urges you tolean closer to the speakers to fully hear everything that is being played and sung..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[D]etails lift out with cumulative power....Pure quality." Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.76) - Ranked #40 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002" Mojo (Publisher) (3/02, p.101) - "...Each play of the CD reveals a new hook, a tiny flourish or a whispered vocal/lyrical cadence. These gradual pleasures fly in the face of today's pop/rock hard-sell....It's a place of warmth, beauty and humanity..." NME (Magazine) (2/23/02, p.34) - 8 out of 10 - "...A brave and curious record....that rarest of things - a record that makes the wild and dramatic seem strangely limited..."