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Whole New You

by Shawn Colvin

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2001

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Overall Rating: 2.7831 Whole New You is ranked overall as 2.7831 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.8646 Whole New You has an avg. critic score of 2.8646 out of 4 stars

Whole New You Album Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

Now that she's on the mommy track, Colvin writes about the impossibility of leaving, much less returning, with a torch

All Music Guide

Whole New You may not contain a song that will spark sales and awards the way "Sunny Came Home" did, but anyone who, like the artist herself, has come to the safe harbor of family life (even with its many challenges) after a long, uncertain voyage through personal relationships and life experiences will appreciate Colvin's ruminations on the subjec ...more

PopMatters

I don't think this collection has quite the edge of Repairs, yet there are enough sepia portraits of romantic angst, enough evocations of exposed sensitivity, sufficient signs that this mistress of the melancholy will once again win the hearts of earlier subscribers to her work. ...more

Rolling Stone

The contrast between Colvin's manner-free singing and the pristine arrangements by her co-songwriter and producer, John Leventhal, creates an interesting dance of the offhand and the strategic. ...more

Rolling Stone

This new collection from the folk-pop powerhouse with the gnomish voice immediately gets down to business. ...more

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Mojo

As a singer, the South Dakota-born, Ontario and Illinois-raised Colvin occupies a niche between pensive Sheryl Crow and pre-jazz Joni Mitchell: no histrionics but a telling, often moving restraint....read the complete review at Mojo

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Billboard

Whole New You easily rises above the din of the sound-alike pop and rock recordings currently crowding the marketplace, offering a plethora of complex yet sweet melodies and lyrics that are both smart and rife with empathetic emotion....read the complete review at Billboard

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Sonicnet

Colvin has a small but honeyed voice, never too sad or too happy, and multi-instrumentalist [producer John] Leventhal has encased it in caressing arrangements, complete with the occasional string quartet. The ensuing pleasures are generally low-key, and...read the complete review at Sonicnet

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The A.V. Club

Shawn Colvin emerged as one of the most successful singers identified with the late-'80s "new-folk" movement, and it's easy to figure out why she continues to cross over: She doesn't actually play folk music. With her background in everything...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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