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Martha Wainwright | 
| Artist: Martha Wainwright
Label: V2
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 129896
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5033197356921
ASIN: B000BK8FBK
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Amazon.co.uk Review
With her debut album appearing at the age of 28, Martha Wainwright has lived in a musical world since she was born. She posses a voice with timbres similar to her brother, Rufus, and to her mother and aunt, Kate & Anna McGarrigle. She also has a way of stretching syllables out for reasons at once musical and textual, very much like her father, Loudon Wainwright, from whom she's also inherited a bold autobiographical stance, albeit couched in her own particular poetics. A bracing confidence informs these thirteen songs, from the bright shiny pop of "G.P.T." and "The Maker" (with the unmistakable voice of Rufus on backup vocals) to the fragile balladry of "Whither Must I Wander." Martha Wainwright continues the family tradition of audacious debuts. -- David Greenberger
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 easily the best new vocalist of the last ten years November 2, 2007
martha wainwright proves on this album that despite all of her vaunted background she is a true original. the songs show great craft, especially BMFA which is perfectly written. and her voice is a wonder. it has the flexibility of mary margaret o'hara's voice and the emotional vastness of jane siberry but is also something completely hers. its really exhilirating the way it can just take off in the middle of a song and go wherever it likes yet still make complete musical sense.
for many years i've been grieving the fact that mary margaret o'hara hasn't been making music but with this album the gap is filled. but she isn't a copycat. like any true talent this musical vision is completely martha's own. and it seems to have sprung complete from her in a way which is very rare. truly wonderful.
 More so-called bonus tracks January 20, 2007
9 out of 31 found this review helpful
Dear Martha
There seems a Wainwright family trait of reissuing recently released CD's with bonus tracks.
How about showing some respect to the people who bought the original versions less than a year earlier? Are we supposed to buy them again? Or would you rather that next time we all just waited until the bonus version appeared.
04-Nov-07
Sorry that so many don't find this helpful, but I stand by my comment. What's the point of putting bonus tracks on a CD a year after the fans that have supported you have bought the CD? It shows a LACK OF RESPECT to your fans!
 the best album i don't own October 7, 2006
6 out of 23 found this review helpful
Martha Wainwright's thoughts and feelings are bared before our eyes in an amazingly honest, daring, lovely way in this album. That's what I think! And I love it. However, I don't own this album because it all sounds a tweeny bit similar to me. There are very few pop albums I have the stamina to listen to all the way through. I just don't think I could get through this. I would always be wanting to skip forward to BMFA, which is a screaming winner. "I've been stoked and poked but it's all smoke there's no more fire."
An album for anyone who's ever felt that way (aka everyone).
BUY THIS ALBUM! December 6, 2005
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is one of those albums that grabs your attention and holds it, from start to finish.
Martha sounds fantastic and has a very talented band behind her.
There isn't a bad track on this album.
It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you think...
Hard to explain, but it's something really special. Trust me.
Watch out for Martha on tour in 2006!
Absolutely the best cd on earth! December 6, 2005
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I absolutely adore this album. It's a difficult one to pigeon hole but its influences being a mixture of contemporary blues, country, folk, and jazz are very clear but in a very individual and unique package. Quite different from her brother's, father's, mother's and aunt's music, having created something completely of her own in every way. It's great and I think that most people would struggle to dislike it. It's not the happiest album in the world, but a very colourful and rich one nonetheless.
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