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Alternative PressThe disc Ryan Adams keeps threatening to make but never quite delivers. [Mar 2006, p.126]
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If there’s a weakness to Makers, it’s the occasional unmemorable tune in the album’s middle section.
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Wonderfully soothing, late-night music that is simply beautiful.
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Entertainment WeeklyPretty rainy-day music. [24 Feb 2006, p.65]
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For what it is, namely a strong, if somewhat benign, collection of songs from a weather beaten soul who plays a mean guitar, Makers is a therapeutic listen with a gentle, if somewhat morose, melodic sensibility.
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MagnetOn Makers, Votolato rarely digs deep enough to scar, and he tends to wander where he thinks inspiration might live instead of letting it find him. [#70, p.110]
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MojoSimply played, gently sung, graceful, literate, folk rock. [Apr 2006, p.98]
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Paste MagazineThere isn't much to distinguish him from a million other talented but interchangeable coffe-shop-circuit troubadours. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.95]
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Unfortunately, bare-bones arrangements, train songs, and good intentions are no shortcut to supposed authenticity, and still less are they a guarantor of overall quality.
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It demonstrates that simplicity is a viable option for accomplished songwriters.
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Q MagazineVotolato invokes real empathy with the drifters, losers and hard-done-by who populate his songs, not unlike a more folky Elliott Smith. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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Proof that you can take the boy out of the emo band, but you can't take the emo out of the boy.
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Votolato has a lot to offer as a musician, but his songwriting veers into stale territory too often over the course of 12 songs, neglecting to pull itself from its many holding patterns in time for salvation.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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TravisBFeb 5, 2006
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NChandlerFeb 1, 2006
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AndyJan 30, 2006